 | Francis Hindes Groome - 1895 - 170 sivua
...Midnight by the Master of the Show ; But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays." Yet to how many critics this has seemed but a poem of the wine-cup and roses ! FitzGerald proved a... | |
 | Catholic University of America - 1905 - 518 sivua
...Midnight by the Master of the Show ; "But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon His chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays." This attempt to make man's history a sort of last chapter to physical science brought about a profound... | |
 | Henry Jackson Van Dyke - 1896 - 514 sivua
...revolt to the pessimism of Omar Khayyam. " We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes, that come and go Round with this Sun-illumined Lantern,...slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. " The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor wit Shall lure it back to... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1896 - 484 sivua
...revolt to the pessimism of Omar Khayyam. " We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes, that come and go Round with this Sun-illumined Lantern,...slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. " The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor wit Shall lure it back to... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 sivua
...FRANCIS ANNE KEMBLK — Linen to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Lennox Academy, Mass. But helpless nd treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life....a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable c t. OMAR KsAviHit—Rufidhjdt. LXIX. Fitzgerald's trans. Life will be lengthened while growing, for... | |
 | Gerald Stanley Lee - 1896 - 176 sivua
...of vastness in which the Persian felt it logical to lose his soul, was Job's way of finding his. " Impotent pieces of the game he plays Upon this checkerboard...thither moves and checks and slays, And one by one in the closet lays. " And that inverted bowl they call the sky, Whereunder, crawling, cooped we live... | |
 | Gerald Stanley Lee - 1896 - 176 sivua
...of vastness in which the Persian felt it logical to lose his soul, was Job's way of finding his. " Impotent pieces of the game he plays Upon this checkerboard...thither moves and checks and slays, And one by one in the closet lays. " And that inverted bowl they call the sky, Whereunder, crawling, cooped we live... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 448 sivua
...Midnight by the Master of the Show; LXIX But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. LXX The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; OMAR... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1896 - 400 sivua
...Midnight by the Master of the Show ;» Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and...and slays ; And one by one back in the Closet lays. LXXV. The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And... | |
 | Lucas Malet - 1896 - 386 sivua
...Midnight by the Master of the Show ; But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays." OMAR KHAYYAM. THE CARISSIMA PROLOGUE * ANTONY HAMMOND told me this story one wet afternoon sitting... | |
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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 back in the Closet lays. 
