“Shade, unperceiv'd, so softening into shade.”
Source: Hymn (1730), line 25.
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“Yet have I lived!—and lived for noble ends!
My shade in glory to the shades descends.”
Book IV, lines 878–879
The Æneis (1817)
Teasing Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Wallsten during a White House press conference, unaware that Wallsten suffers from Stargardt’s disease and is partly blind.
"Bush shows his sensitive side, telling blind journalist: 'I'm interested in the shade look'" http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1089264.ece, The Independent, June 16, 2006.
2000s, 2006
“The hunter and the deer a shade.”
O'Connor's Child, Stanza 5
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The hunter and the deer a shade.”
The Indian Burying-Ground. This line was appropriated by Thomas Campbell in O'Connor's Child.
To Call Up the Shades http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=17&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
“For hopeless love is but a dream and shade.”
Che l'amar senza speme è sogno e ciancia.
Canto XXV, stanza 49 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
The Aspen Tree from The London Literary Gazette (21st August 1830)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)