 | State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania - 1843 - 550 σελίδες
...intelligent omcers, satisfy me that the average daily conversation of each prisoner, unless it be with those "Airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses," does not exceed, if, indeed, it equals, ten minutes. This is quite too little. Men of strong and cultivated... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 σελίδες
...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 may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 σελίδες
...Л thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, e would pray to live; And in the midst of so much gold, Unbought with grace, or fear uueoM These thoughts may startle well, but not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
 | 1854 - 696 σελίδες
...calling voice that thrilled through his brain, not so much like a woman's, as resembling the cry of those airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses ! Lord Luxton looked keenly at his agitated visitor^ and the astute man of the world, initructed by... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 σελίδες
...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 may startle well, but not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | George Moore - 1846 - 452 σελίδες
...words of Milton haunt the memory of most readers : " Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." — COMDS. The prevalent superstitions of the Arabians are probably here referred to, for these people,... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 σελίδες
...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. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong-siding... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 σελίδες
...A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, him D These thoughts may startle well, but not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 σελίδες
...desert of Lop, to the ghastly calling of people's names—to " Voices calling in the dead of night, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." He has another line in the same passage about " ghastly fury's apparition," which we cannot but think... | |
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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. 
