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 champion, Conscience. Poems on Various Subjects - Page 55by Anne MacVicar Grant - 1803 - 441 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names 208 On sands, and shores, and desert f the earlier season lead, To the i-imi'il haycock...with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, — 0 welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings, And... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but...attended By a strong siding champion, conscience. O, welcome, pure-eyed faith, white-handed hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings, And thou... | |
| Walter Scott - 1843 - 728 pages
...the continuation of the passage may be happily applied to Jeanie Deans upon this singular alarm: — These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The...attended By a strong siding champion — Conscience. In fact, it was, with the recollection of the affectionate and dutiful errand on which she was engaged,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...that syllable men's names 208 On suds, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startte well, but not astound, The virtuous mind, that ever...attended By a strong siding champion. Conscience. — 0 sckome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thoa hovering angel, girt with golden wings, And thou,... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but...attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.— 0 welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings, And thou,... | |
| Literature - 1896 - 926 pages
...have appropriated and assimilated; the spirit that is abroad in them shines throughout their speech. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The...attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience. The voice is undoubtedly the voice of Milton: but though no very great thing in itself, it expresses... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert |j_ 9 w | 5 ̛}6m ?lҕ[ohy m ~ O 3 & {pGW ? _ k ڣM ]zp g A <W2 p * 6 .H # d strong-siding champion, Conscience. 0 welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel,... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...wliile, astounded and aiuaz'd, No wonder, fall'n such a pernicious highth. Milan's Par. Lost, book i. These thoughts may startle well but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong-siding champion, Conscience. Union's i'ou.vs, book 210. At first, heard solemn thro' the verge... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert X strong-siding champion, Conscience. 0 welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel,... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but...astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong-siding champion, conscience. 0 welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel,... | |
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