 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...phantasies 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 wildernesses. Warton says, " I remember these superstitions, which are here finely applied, in the ancient voyages... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 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... | |
 | 1836 - 558 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, arul beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1837 - 438 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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 pages
...instance, (in his Faithful Shepherdess) : And voices calling me in dead of night. Milton, also : — And airy tongues, that syllable men's names, On sands and shores and desert wildernesses3. A short time after, I was afflicted by another dream. I was buried, methought, beneath... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 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 210 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - 1838 - 396 pages
...viande, estants es deserta." — Belon, Observations, &c. c. 53, fol. 214, verso. NOTE 20, PAOE 12. • 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 wildernesses."... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - 1838 - 392 pages
...viande, estants es deserts." — Belon, Observations, &c. c. 53, fol. 214, verso. - NOTE 20, PAGE 12. : 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 wildernesses."... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 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 210 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By... | |
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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. 
