 | Omar Khayyam - 1888 - 138 pagina’s
...Soul on fire Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerg'd from, shall so soon .expire. 1 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... | |
 | 1888 - 498 pagina’s
...the conflict of inner and outer circumstances; in other words, fatalism." Compare this with Omar: " 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... | |
 | Thomas C. Evans - 1888 - 284 pagina’s
...and go Round with the sun illumined lantern held In midnight by the master of the show. " Impotent pieces of the game he plays Upon this checker-board of nights and days, Hither and thither moves and checks and slays, And one by one back in the box he lays. " The moving finger... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 532 pagina’s
...from a Soul on 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...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 one... | |
 | Charles M. Clark - 1889 - 642 pagina’s
...of players in this great game for National existence; which to mind the song of Omar Khayyam:— " We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes, that come and go Round with the illuminated lantern held In midnight by the master of the show; But helpless pieces of the game he... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1889 - 328 pagina’s
...offer us. You offer us only GRAPES OF GALL, 109 the old, old paganism ; the Fate of the Persian poet: " 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... | |
 | 1889 - 942 pagina’s
...willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing. We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show; go But helpless Pieces... | |
 | 1890 - 660 pagina’s
...game of chess whU Heaven plays with our souls, the third a note of prayer and territlf arraignment. I 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... | |
 | 1919 - 594 pagina’s
...wonder at the symbolism of this new art, or murmur sentimentally with the trite and sentimental Omar:— We are no other than a moving row Of magic Shadow-shapes...Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show! LEWIS PIAGET SHANKS. University of Wisconsin. BUGABOO German to the end was the Fatherland's diplomacy.... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1893 - 464 pagina’s
...from a Soul on 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...Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show. LXXI. The Moving Finger writes; and,... | |
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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 the Game He plays Upon this Checkerboard of Nights... 
