 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.  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyām - Pàgina 112per Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - 1900 - 144 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1909 - 844 pàgines
...these lodges near Persepolls that he was lost in a swamp. Finally, we read a reference to polo in— "The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There, as strikes the Player, goes; And he that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all — He knows — He knows!" And one... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 pàgines
...moving row Of visionary Shapes that come and go LXXIV. Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither...and slays ; And one by one back in the Closet lays. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And He... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pàgines
...midnight by the master of the show. " Impotent 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 ball no question makes of ayes and noes, But right or left, as strikes the player, goes ; And... | |
 | 1908 - 1066 pàgines
...Midnight by the Master of the Show ; " Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and Thither moves and...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays." The answer to the questions of religion that the higher powers are like nature and find in nature their... | |
 | Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 70 pàgines
...hejd In Midnight by the Master of the Show ;31 LXIX. Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither...LXX. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about... | |
 | 1878 - 612 pàgines
...midnight by the Master of the Show ; " Impotent pieces of the game He plays Upon this checker-board of nights and days ; Hither and thither moves, and...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. " The ball no question makes of ayes and noes, But right or left as strikes the Player goes ; And He... | |
 | Robert Durie Osborn - 1876 - 460 pàgines
...poet, were the sport of a capricious and pitiless Destiny — — pieces of the game He plays Upon this chequer-board of nights and days, Hither and thither moves, and checks and slays, Then one by one back in the closet lays. Speculation as to the future was unprofitable — the endeavour... | |
 | Robert Durie Osborn - 1876 - 482 pàgines
...poet, were the sport of a capricious and pitiless Destiny — — pieces of the game He plays Upon this chequer-board of nights and days, Hither and thither moves, and checks and slays, Then one by one back in the closet lays. Speculation as to the future was unprofitable — the endeavour... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 pàgines
...laatern held In midnight by tho master of the show. " Impotent pieces of the game IIP plays Upon this chequer-board of nights and days : Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slaya, And one by one back in the closet lays." " The moving finger writes, and. having writ, Moves... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 476 pàgines
...lantern held At 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 checks, and slays, And, one by one, back in the'closet lays." Now in all this assumption there is nothing inconsistent with the conception of God... | |
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