 But helpless 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 Closet lays.  The Last Word - Sivu 340tekijä(t) Alice MacGowan - 1902 - 439 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Hartwig Kuhlenbeck - 1975 - 1042 sivua
...the Closet lays." (1859, XLIX) "Impotent Pieces of the Game It plays Upon this Chequer-board of Night and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays." (sic seem, 1872, LXIX) "The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the... | |
 | 1975 - 922 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. First European contacts. While the Aztalan farmers were growing corn and defending their village, western... | |
 | Franz Rosenthal - 1975 - 202 sivua
...a later version of Fitzgerald's : 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.15 The supposedly more literal translation by AJ Arberry reads: A stark and solemn truth I say,... | |
 | Charles Hartshorne - 1984 - 162 sivua
...would have to be made to find a better way of interpreting the divine power. We are . . . But Helpless pieces of the Game He Plays Upon this Checker-board...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. (Verse 69) Oh Thou, who didst with pifall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt... | |
 | Khayyam, Omar - 1989 - 142 sivua
...Midnight by the Master of the Show; t>ut 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. 1 he Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He... | |
 | George Allan - 1990 - 344 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 checks,...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. 12 The poetry is glorious and the stoicism ennobling, but the way of detachment, says Toynbee, is ultimately... | |
 | Campbell Gillon - 1991 - 236 sivua
...the words of Omar Khayyam: . . . [the] 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. Not the God Jesus reveals. Not the God to whom Jesus submits. We must all learn to say 'Thy will be... | |
 | William Pfaff - 1994 - 261 sivua
...(FitzGerald's) "Rubaiyat" itself: But helpless Pieces in the Game [God] 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. A sense of victimization and impotence lies behind the phenomenon of revolutionary Islamic integrism... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 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. i»70^ The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And... | |
 | Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - 1997 - 342 sivua
...Midnight by the Master of the Show;2i LXIX. Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one bv one back in the Closet lavs. For let Philosopher and Doctor preach Of what they will, and what they... | |
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