 | Omar Khayyam - 1899 - 192 pàgines
..."food" and "wine," "goblet" and "lute," whence we get " thou beside me singing in the wilderness." XVI. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone. XVII. Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after... | |
 | Caxton Club - 1899 - 88 pàgines
...James, came out in the present year. A set of proofs of the illustrations form part of this exhibit. " The Worldly Hope men set their hearts upon Turns Ashes...Face, Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone." 1 6 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. THE ASTRONOMER POET OF PERSIA. Rendered into English Verse by Edward... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1899 - 544 pàgines
...Oh, the brave music of a distant drum ! The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes—or it prospers ; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone. I sometimes think that never blow so red The roses as where some buried Caesar bled;... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pàgines
...winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned As, buried once, Men want dug up again. XVI. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers ; and anon, XVII. Think, in this battered Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after... | |
 | 1900 - 644 pàgines
...he, more than any other, understood the sentiment expressed in the lines of old Omar : " The wordly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes, or it...dusty face Lighting a little hour or two, is gone." Tempus edax rerum, sooner or later will efface the names of all those whom fame has chosen to inscribe... | |
 | Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - 1900 - 162 pàgines
...winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again. XVI. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — was gone. XVII. Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1900 - 198 pàgines
...I blow : " At once the silken Tassel of my Purse " Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw." XIV The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lightning a little Hour or two — is gone. And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who... | |
 | Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton - 1900 - 370 pàgines
...he ever seemed to muse with Omar Khayyam thus : The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns to ashes — or it prospers ; and anon, Like snow upon...desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two — was gone ! and tossed aside his triumphs with indifference. Whatever the part he had to personate,... | |
 | Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton - 1900 - 374 pàgines
...he ever seemed to muse with Omar Khayyam thus : The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns to ashes — or it prospers ; and anon, Like snow upon...desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two — was gone ! and tossed aside his triumphs with indifference. Whatever the part he had to personate,... | |
 | Frederick Rolfe - 1901 - 448 pàgines
...Lord Alexander PP VI he had had his health, he easily might have done anything, said Machiavelli.1 " The Worldly Hope Men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone.2 * * * At the Ninth Consistory of the thirtieth (or thirty-first) of May (or June) 1503, the... | |
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone. 
