Shadows Quotes
(1 - 10 of 13)Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most
conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the more
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most
conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
Come like shadows, so depart!
Come like shadows, so depart!
Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.
Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.
By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can more
By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond.
Like Hezekiah's, backward runs
The shadow of my days.
Like Hezekiah's, backward runs
The shadow of my days.
And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains.
[Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.]
And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains.
[Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.]
The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us
at the moment of the election, and in more
The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us
at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest,
while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours,
has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we
pursue.
Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, more
Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?
