 | 1885 - 1024 страница
...their feet, to be dealt with by the controlling powers. With this we read, — " We are no other (ban 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 He... | |
 | 1887 - 460 страница
...Business Manager EL MACCREERY. VOL. XVII. OCTOBER. 1887. No. 1. THE DIVINE NEMESIS IN GREEK TRAGEDY. "We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes,...Lantern, held In Midnight by the Master of the Show." Thus sang the poet-astronomer of Persia more than six centuries ago. He was trying to formulate the... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 страница
...fire Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late cmerg'd from, shall so soon expire. LXVITI We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumiri d Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Sliow ; ( See Stanza XL/I. ) While... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 страница
...fire Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late cmerg'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 the Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show ; 56 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1888 - 136 страница
...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 the Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show ; LXIX But helpless Pieces of... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 532 страница
...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-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show; LXIX. But helpless Pieces of... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 218 страница
...draughts of the red Falernian wine. Another of a different age 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... | |
 | Charles M. Clark - 1889 - 636 страница
...players in this great game for National existence ; which called to mind the song of Omar Khayyam: — " We 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... | |
 | 1906 - 554 страница
...practical joke or God's plaything. He never could have written the lines of the old Persian poet : ' We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go. . . But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and... | |
 | 1890 - 660 страница
...game of chess whki Heaven plays with our souls, the third a note of prayer and terribc arraignment. 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 He... | |
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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... 
