 | 1827 - 698 pages
...incidents to which our fears attach more consequence, as we cannot exactly tell what it is we hcli' il. 1, or what is to be apprehended from it: — " A thousand...Of calling shapes and beck'ning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desart wildernesses." Burke observes... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1827 - 486 pages
...beck'ning hand, Thy lonesome steps,' which he supposes to be taken from the following in Comus — • Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names,' is more probably taken from the commencement of Pope's Elegy on an unfortunate Lady — • What beck'ning... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...But where they are, and why they came not back, Is now the labour of my thoughts : * * * * * * * & thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory,...Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable mens' names, On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...rife, and perfect in my listening ear ; Yet nought but single darkness do I find. What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 pages
...rife and perfect in my list'ning ear ; Yet nought but single darkness do I find. What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory,...names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 pages
...rife and perfect in my list'ning ear ; Yet nought but single darkness do I find. What might this be 1 A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory,...names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...list'ning ear, Yet nought but single darkness do I find. What might this be ? A thousand fantasies 205 Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes,...names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong-siding... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...the approach of some inhabitant of another world ; a thousand forms would distract his vision — " Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And...names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." Or, if the veil which covered the heavens were parted ; if the vaporous curtain were drawn aside, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...list'ning ear; Yet naught but single darkness do I find. What might this be? A thousand fantasies 205 Begin, to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands , and shores , and desert wildernesses. These thoughts... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 pages
...and undefinable nature, such as arise in the mind of the Lady in the Masque of Comus, — incidents to which our fears attach more consequence, as we...observes upon obscurity, that it is necessary to make any thing terrible, and notices, " how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form... | |
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. 
