| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...list'ning ear, Yet nought but single darkness do I find. What might this be? A thousand fantasies z05 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... | |
| John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 294 pages
...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, " Of calling shapes and beck'ning shadows dire, 260 . " And aery tongues, that syllable mens' names " On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.... | |
| John Milton, John Dalton - English drama - 1791 - 498 pages
...and perfeft 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, " Of calling shapes and beck'ning shadows dire, zCo ^' And aery tongues, that syllable mens' names •' On sands, and shores, and desert wilderr.esscs.... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 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,...airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, an A .shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well- but not astound The virtuous... | |
| 1855 - 620 pages
...have reached the ears of the youthful Milton, who sang in ' Comus ' of ' Calling shapes and beck'ninjj shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's...names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.' Undoubtedly the Puritan divines of England were indebted for some of their most ' remarkable providences... | |
| Anne MacVicar Grant - Scottish poetry - 1803 - 462 pages
...PART IV. " A thousand fantasies " Begin to throng into my memory, " Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, " And airy tongues, that syllable men's names " On sands, and shores, and desart wildernesses." These thoughts may startle well, but not astound " The virtuous mind that ever... | |
| Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 334 pages
...Drummelziar, and chief of a powerful clan. To those spirits were also ascribed, in Scotland, the —" Airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." When the workmen were engaged in erecting the ancient church of Old Deer, in Aberdeenshire, upon a... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pages
...of these circumstances Milton also alludes: " calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, " And aery tongues, that syllable men's names, " On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." Steeveiis. * Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.] The first words are addressed to Caliban, who, vexed... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...of these circumstances Milton also alludes: " calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, " And aery tongues, that syllable men's names, " On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." Stemetw. * Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.l The first words are addressed to Caliban, who, vexed... | |
| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 496 pages
...Annette continued on a chair by the hearth, where some feeble embers remained. CHAP. VII. " Of aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." MILTON. IT is now necessary to mention some circumstances, which could not be related amidst the events... | |
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