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" 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. "
Victory - Page iii
by Joseph Conrad - 1923
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Poems on Various Subjects, Volume 63

Anne MacVicar Grant - Scottish poetry - 1803 - 462 pages
...year 1745. THE HIGHLANDERS : . PART IV. " A thousand fantasies " Begin to throng into my memory, " Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, " And...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...
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem

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,...
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The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 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,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...this be ? A thousand fantasies M5 Begin to throng into my memory, Of culling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Those thoughts may startle well, but not astound, S10 The virtuous mind, that ever walks...
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An Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions

John Ferriar - Apparitions - 1813 - 156 pages
...JOHN FERRIAR, MD 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 wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound. COMUĞ, 1. 205. LONDON: PRINTED FOR...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: The lay of the last minstrel. Ballads and ...

Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 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,...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 5

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pages
...dark with woods and precipices, where • a thousand phanusies Begin to throng into the memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names — the riding over a wild heath where no human habitation appears and the silence of desolation seems...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 4

1822 - 654 pages
...scenery, dark with woods and precipices, where -a thousand phantasies Begin to throng into the memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names — the riding over a wild heath where no human habitation appears and the silence of desolation seems...
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The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal, Volume 4

1822 - 640 pages
...scenery, dark with woods and precipices, where -a thousand phantasies Begin to throng into the memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names — the riding over a wild heath where no human habitation appears and the silence of desolation seems...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning her end of Heav'n the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhœan rage more fell, Rend up bot wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended...
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