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. Written on Their Foreheads - Страница 253написао/ла Robert Henry Elliot - 1879Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 страница
...soon expire. LXXIII. We are no other than a moving row Of visionary Shapes that come and go LXXIV. Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board...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 страница
...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 страница
...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 страница
...come and go Eound with this Sun-illumin'd Lantern hejd In Midnight by the Master of the Show ;31 LXIX. Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. LXX. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And... | |
| 1878 - 612 страница
...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 - 482 страница
...humanity ; men, so it seemed to the poet, were the sport of a capricious and pitiless Destiny — — pieces of the game He plays Upon this chequer-board...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 - 486 страница
...humanity ; men, so it seemed to the poet, were the sport of a capricious and pitiless Destiny — — pieces of the game He plays Upon this chequer-board...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... | |
| Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 476 страница
...a moving row Of tragic shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the sun-illumiu'd lantern held At midnight by the master of the show : Impotent pieces...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... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 страница
...-v. .a --..|-.>-.-^-.jj»J*maArCTW LXIX. 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. LXX. The Ball no question makes of Ayes anc But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And He that... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 142 страница
...Round with the Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show ; LXIX. But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board...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 ; And... | |
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