 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.  Appletons' Journal - Страница 2921878Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1902 - 316 страница
...Midnight by the Master of the Show ; But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and...And one by one back in the Closet lays. . . . The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 350 страница
...Midnight by the Master of the Show; 22 LXXIV Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and...and slays; And one by one back in the Closet lays. LXXV The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes; And... | |
 | Francis Hindes Groome, Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 246 страница
...Midnight by the Master of the Show ; But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Yet to how many critics this has seemed but a poem of the wine-cup and roses ! FitzGerald proved a... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1902 - 74 страница
...of God offers no hope; for we are But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Freedom, moral obligation, God's love, immortality, all these would Omar, in his darkest moods, wrest... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 358 страница
...Fitzgerald's version of the Rubaiyat:— Impotent pieces of the game he plays Upon this checquer board of nights and days ; Hither and thither moves and...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. 41. The tenet both of the Epicureans and Stoics. See the commentators on Horace, Bpist. I. vi. i, 2.... | |
 | ROBERT BROWNING - 1902 - 62 страница
...of God offers no hope; for we are But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Freedom, moral obligation, God's love, immortality, all these would Omar, in his darkest moods, wrest... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 312 страница
...by the Master of the Show; LXIX But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays§ Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. * They told their fellows, and to Sleep return'd. (Third edition.) f And Hell the Shadow of a Soul... | |
 | Malcolm James McLeod - 1903 - 224 страница
...who would make of life an idle lottery. "We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes, that come and go Round with this sun-illumined lantern,...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays." Perhaps our Puritan elders in attempting to curb the youthfulness of youth made life grim-visaged and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 страница
...Midnight by the Master of the Show ; Hut helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board s | > I Here or there as strikes the Player goes ; And lie that toss'd you down into the Field, Ht knows about... | |
 | Mrs. David George Ritchie - 1903 - 392 страница
...midnight by the Master of the Show : But helpless pieces of the Game He plays Upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days, Hither and thither moves, and...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays." What right had the " Master of the Show " to compel her to play out her contemptible part ? Rest —... | |
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