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" 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. "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 244
1820
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pages
...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...astound, The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong-siding champion, Conscience. Oh ! welcome pure-eyed Eaith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...beckoning shadows dire,4 And aery tongues that syllable w men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but...astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended 210 nt least monstrous and unnatural conceits, would Milton have introduced this passage, where thievish...
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Poetical Works: Volume 2. Paradise Regain'd; Samson Agonistes; Poems Upon ...

John Milton - 2000 - 412 pages
...Shoars, and desert Wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound aio The vertuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion Conscience. . . . 0 welcom pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering Angel girt with golden wings, And thou unblemish't...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

1909 - 502 pages
...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...By a strong siding champion, Conscience. 0 welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings, And thou unblemished...
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The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost

William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...well into manhood.32 This archaic submission can be discerned in one of its most puzzling passages: These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The...0 welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hov'ring Angel girt with golden wings, And thou unblemish't form of Chastity, 1 see ye visibly. (210-216)...
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Milton, Poet of Exile

Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...has allowed his young lady of fifteen to utter that famous substitution of chastity for charity: O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering Angel girt with golden wings, And thou unblemish't form of Chastity . . . [213-15] The full power of chastity is represented, not in the Lady,...
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Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood: Initiation and Rape in Literature

Kathleen Wall - 1988 - 238 pages
...to plague her imagination, she squelches them with the comforting thoughts of virtue: The vertuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion Conscience. — 0 welcom pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering Angel girt with golden wings, And though unblemish't...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound 210 The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience. 0 welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings, And thou unblemished...
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Milton: The life

William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...lines which were omitted from the Bridgewater Manuscript and probably from the performance, among them: These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The...By a strong siding champion conscience. 0 welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings, And thou unblemished...
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Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance ...

Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 pages
...the Lady does not so much temper her imagination with reason as unqualifiedly reject this faculty: These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The...walks attended By a strong siding champion Conscience. (11. 210-12) The Lady gives no indication that the virtuous mind has any use at all for the products...
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