 What might this be? 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 desert wildernesses.  Examinations Papers - Page 91879Full view - About this book
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 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 wildernesses. These thoughts... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...this be ? A thousand fantasies 205 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. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 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, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 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, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert... | |
 | Tasmania - 1833 - 388 pages
...the Seer, ever did, or ever could vanquish! And now — A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into our memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's name On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses — These thoughts may startle well, but not astound."... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...of another world ; a thousand forms would distract his vision — " Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." Or, if the veil which covered the heavens were parted ; if the vaporous curtain... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...confessedly indebted, avails himself of the latter circumstance." The lady exclaims, A thousand 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1835 - 420 pages
...consequence, as we cannot exactly tell what it is we behold, or what is to be apprehended from it : — " 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1835 - 452 pages
...consequence, as we cannot exactly tell what it is we behold, or what is to be apprehended from it : — " 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... | |
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