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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.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: in a speech at Bristol on declining the poll
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Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
Author: John Gay
Source: The Persian, Sun, and Cloud (l. 10)
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(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (II, 572)
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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?
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: The Forest--Song--That Women are but Men's Shadows
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
Author: John Locke
Source: Essay concerning Human Understanding (bk. II, ch. VIII, par. 5)
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Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto II, st. 5)
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Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most
conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
Author: Bayard Ruskin
Source: Painting
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Come like shadows, so depart!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Witches at IV, i)
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Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Arragon at II, ix)
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The birds chaunt melody on every bush,
The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,
The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,
And make a checkered shadow on the ground;
Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,
And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,
Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,
As if a double hunt were heard at once,
Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;
And after conflict such as was supposed
The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,
When with a happy storm they were surprised,
And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,
We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,
Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,
Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds
Be unto us as is a nurse's song
Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Titus Andronicus (Tamora at II, iii)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii)
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Like Hezekiah's, backward runs
The shadow of my days.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue, (ed. 1842)
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And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains.
[Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: Eclogue (I, 84)
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