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" We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show... "
Modern Culture - Page 181
edited by - 1901
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Temple Bar, Volume 114

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1898 - 632 pages
...Khayyam's marvellous lines, which, in their turn, suggest and parallel the Shadows in Plato's Cave : — "We are no other than a moving row Of magic Shadow-shapes that come and go, Bound with the Sun's illumin'd Lantern, held In Midnight by the Master of the Show." This image again...
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-poet of Persia. Rendered Into ...

Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 70 pages
...fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire. LXVIII. We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Eound with this Sun-illumin'd Lantern hejd In Midnight by the Master of the Show ;31 LXIX. Impotent...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 41

1876 - 502 pages
...sentiment of the year 1900 was sung six hundred years ago by the poet of the Old Man of the Mountain. " We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes, that come and go Round with this sun-illumined lantern, held In midnight by the master of the show. And that inverted bowl they...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 27

1876 - 1022 pages
...soul on fire, Cast on the darknoss into which ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire. " We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes that come and go Round with this sun-illumin'd laatern held In midnight by tho master of the show. " Impotent pieces of the game...
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The Gulshan ráz

Maḥmūd ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm Shabistarī - 1876 - 146 pages
...Omar Khayyam. We are no other than a moving row Of visionary shapes that come and go, Round with this sun illumined lantern, held In midnight by the master of the show. 3 See note on Rule, Answer IV, and Milton's Paradise Lost, V, 479. So from the root This in its turn...
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-poet of Persia

Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 pages
...fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire. LXVIII. We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with this Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show ; 21 53 llJ ^•rt -v. .a --..|-.>-.-^-.jj»J*maA...
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: And the Salámán and Ábsál of Jámí

Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 142 pages
...the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire. EUBAIYAT OF LXVIII. We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show ; LXIX. But helpless Pieces of the...
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: And the Salámán and Ábsál of Jámí

Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 pages
...the Darkness into which Ourselves, So ]ate emerg'd from, shall so soon expire. EUBAIYAT OF LXVIII. We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show ; LXIX. But helpless Pieces of the...
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Written on Their Foreheads, Volume 2

Robert Henry Elliot - 1879 - 376 pages
...you ivill l>e of reading this terribly long letter. ' Yours sincerely, 'JOHN GRANT.' CHAPTER LVIII. We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes that come and go Round with this sun-illumined lantern held In midnight by the master of the show; Impotent pieces of the game...
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Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 37

1880 - 820 pages
...second answer is in the stanzas of the Persian poet Omar, if, indeed, we are thus to interpret him : " We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes, that come and go Round with this sun-illumined lantern, held In midnight by the master of the show ; Impotent pieces of the game...
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