 | 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... | |
 | William W. Hudson, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1901 - 650 pàgines
...run, The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop, The leaves of life keep falling one by one. .* ****** The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes...desert's dusty face Lighting a little hour or two — was gone. Of the element of chance in life, Koheleth, who had almost lost his faith in God, said... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 428 pàgines
...At once the silken Tassel of my Purse Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw." XIV. The Wordly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or...dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone. xv. And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain, Alike... | |
 | Helen Mathers - 1902 - 344 pàgines
...that I had never let a woman break up my life with her moods, and fads, and exactions. CHAPTER III " The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes...dusty face Lighting a little hour or two, is gone." WHEN once you have fixed your mind on an especial person or circumstance, the very stones in the highway... | |
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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. 
