 | Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 340 oldal
...this account of the desert traditions in Marco Polo was derived Milton's fine passage in Comus : — " Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire. And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." But the most remarkable of these desert superstitions,... | |
 | Popular readings - 1867 - 266 oldal
...nought but single4 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 may startle well, but not astound, The... | |
 | Ovid - 1868 - 414 oldal
...spectral forms appearing under changing shapes, frightful dreams and nightmares, ' the thousand fantasies Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses3. 1 In the writers of the Augustan age, Faunus can scarcely... | |
 | Publius Ovidius Naso - 1868 - 414 oldal
...spectral forms appearing under changing shapes, frightful dreams and nightmares, ' the thousand fantasies Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses 3 . 1 In the writers of the Augustan age, Faunus can... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 oldal
...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 may startle well, but not astound The... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1871 - 358 oldal
...this account of the desert traditions in Marco Polo was derived Milton's fine passage in "Comus:" — "Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." But the most remarkable of these desert superstitions,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1871 - 366 oldal
...this account of the desert traditions in Marco Polo was derived Milton's fine passage in "Comus:"— "Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses." But the most remarkable of these desert superstitions,... | |
 | William Ritchie MacFadyen - 1873 - 72 oldal
...state of mind wherein poetry should be read. When — If the ear be true, A thousand fantasies Should throng into the memory Of calling shapes, and beckoning Shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. This thought,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 oldal
...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. 210. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound... | |
 | 1915 - 826 oldal
...forest, expressss the coming on of mysterious terrors ! 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. Here nearly every word stands for more than its mere literal... | |
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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. 
