 | Robert Durie Osborn - 1876 - 486 страница
...humanity ; men, so it seemed to the poet, were the sport of a capricious and pitiless Destiny — — pieces of the game He plays Upon this chequer-board...days, Hither and thither moves, and checks and slays, Then one by one back in the closet lays. Speculation as to the future was unprofitable — the endeavour... | |
 | Robert Durie Osborn - 1876 - 482 страница
...humanity ; men, so it seemed to the poet, were the sport of a capricious and pitiless Destiny — — pieces of the game He plays Upon this chequer-board...days, Hither and thither moves, and checks and slays, Then one by one back in the closet lays. Speculation as to the future was unprofitable — the endeavour... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 страница
...sun-illumin'd laatern held In midnight by tho master of the show. " Impotent pieces of the game IIP plays Upon this chequer-board of nights and days : Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slaya, And one by one back in the closet lays." " The moving finger writes, and. having writ, Moves... | |
 | 1876 - 814 страница
...as dreams are made of : — None other than a moving row Of visionary shapes that come and go Around the sun-illumined lantern held In midnight by the master of the show. Every object is seen against the background of eternal mystery. In Macaulay's pages this element is... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1879 - 422 страница
...as dreams are made of : — None other than a moving row Of visionary shapes that come and go Around the sun-illumined lantern held In midnight by the master of the show. Every object is seen against the background of eternal mystery. In Macaulay's pages this element is... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1881 - 312 страница
...halfpessimist, half-pantheistic, stand-point, "We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go, Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern...and Days, Hither and thither moves, and checks and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays." Koheleth's complaint that there is "no new thing under... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1881 - 306 страница
...halfpessimist, half-pantheistic, stand-point, "We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go, Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern...and Days, Hither and thither moves, and checks and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays." Koheleth's complaint that there is "no new thing under... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 страница
...lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. (See Stanza XLlfi.) LXIX But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this...Chequer-board of Nights and Days: Hither and thither mows, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. LXX The Ball no question makes... | |
 | Charles M. Clark - 1889 - 642 страница
...are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes, that come and go Ronnd with the illuminated lantern held In midnight by the master of the show; But helpless pieces of the game he plays Upon the chequer-board of nights and days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 218 страница
...and race was not displeased to think that " 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. " But it is a sadder note that sounds through modern literature. When Rousseau gives casual expression to... | |
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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... 
