| 1906 - 594 страница
...legislation or indeed by any present action. ' The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on ; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.' Let us suppose that some great aristocrat in the eighteenth century unjustly increased his fortune... | |
| 1897 - 986 страница
...these time-honored stones cannot be erased. The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel...a line. Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. ET MURRAY SMITH. From The Contemporary Review. LIFK IN A FRENCH COMMUNE. In dealing with French customs... | |
| 1907 - 974 страница
...are the words of the Rubaiyat more true : "The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on : Nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a Word of it." Dr. Balleray says : "The sins of commission are the sins of the operative gynecologist; he does the... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 страница
...all — HE knows — HE knows ! B LXXVI. The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel...a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. LXXVII. For let Philosopher and Doctor preach Of what they will, and what they will not — each Is... | |
| 1908 - 1066 страница
...can change it — not even God himself. " The Moving Finger writes, and having writ. Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." But though God cannot annihilate the past and make it as though it had not been, he can out of our... | |
| 1885 - 980 страница
...examples takes its subject from the quatrain, "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Movts on ; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." The recording angel, with unmoving eyes and lips, traces upon the leaves of a book ; two figures attend... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1870 - 438 страница
...The moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on : not all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. With Earth's first clay they did the last Man knead, And there of the last Harvest sowed the seed :... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1870 - 436 страница
...The moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on : not all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a woid of it. With Earth's first clay they did the last Man knead, And there of the last Harvest sowed... | |
| Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 70 страница
...— HE knows — HE knows !33 : LXXI. I/ The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel...a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. LXXII. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not... | |
| 1878 - 612 страница
...about it all — HE knows— HE knows ! " The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." Few of the Rubaiyat are so consecutive as these, most of them being in a great measure independent... | |
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