...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...

...derived Milton's fine passage in Comus : — ' 8f 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, as suggested by the mention of Lord Lindsay,...

...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, instructed by...

...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, as suggested by the mention of Lord Lindsay,...

...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." " The article is concluded by a spirited notice, — which will, of course, be read with interest at...

...Romeo and Julier A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of ealling shapes, and beek'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's...names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Milton's Сamus. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay ereatures of the element, That in the eolours...

...Melancholy" — "Or ghostly shape, At distance seen, invites, with beckoning hand, Thy lonesome steps," " Of calling shapes, and beckoning 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 beckoning...

...stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth. Line 205 A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire,...names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Line 221. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? Line 244....

...though beyond the power of the memory to recal, yet there are states of mental excitement, when— " A thousand fantasies , Begin to throng into the memory,...Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names." Hence, what you learn is no little matter; it tinges, as light...

...pleasures fire the breast. Young. CLOUDS OF THE BRAIN. A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names, And sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Milton. 87 HONOUR FOR WHAT ? Men, like butterflies,...