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 181edited by - 1901Full view - About this book
| Volney Streamer - 1897 - 248 pages
...Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerg'd 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 Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show ; Impotent Pieces of the Game... | |
| Robert William Chambers - 1897 - 312 pages
...Death ! Till the white moon reels in the cracking skies, And the ghosts of God arise. THE WHITE SHADOW. 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. A moment's halt — a momentary... | |
| Francis Dana - 1897 - 334 pages
...heroism consists in passive endurance of rain, mud, pestilence, and a diet of clams. DRAMATIS PERSONS "We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes, that come and go Round in this sun-illunilneil lantern, held In midnight by the master of the show." — OMAR KHAYYAM. THOMAS... | |
| Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1897 - 324 pages
...whose future actions he can predict nothing, and who, while comporting themselves as if they were " no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go," give everywhere proof of their real humanity. With this signal exception, and allowing for the circumstance... | |
| Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1897 - 326 pages
...whose future actions he can predict nothing, and who, while comporting themselves as if they were " no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go," give everywhere proof of their real humanity. With this signal exception, and allowing for the circumstance... | |
| Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1897 - 326 pages
...whose future actions he can predict nothing, and who, while comporting themselves as if they were " no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go," give everywhere proof of their real humanity. With this signal exception, and allowing for the circumstance... | |
| Francis Dana - 1897 - 334 pages
...passive endurance of rain, mud, pestilence, and a diet of clams. DRAMATIS PERSONS "We are no oiher than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes, that come and go Round in this sun-illumined lantern, held In midnight by the master of the show." — OMAR KHAYYAM. THOMAS... | |
| Nathan Haskell Dole - 1898 - 396 pages
...are no other than a moving row Of Magic-Shadoiv-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;..." ' But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1898 - 130 pages
...fire Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire. V 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 Game... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1898 - 336 pages
...fire,* Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire. LXVIII We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illuminedf Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show; [231] * In the edition of 1887 :... | |
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