 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
 | Franz Rosenthal - 1975 - 202 страница
...a later version of Fitzgerald's : 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.15 The supposedly more literal translation by AJ Arberry reads: A stark and solemn truth I say,... | |
 | Charles Hartshorne - 1984 - 162 страница
...would have to be made to find a better way of interpreting the divine power. We are . . . But Helpless pieces of the Game He Plays Upon this Checker-board...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. (Verse 69) Oh Thou, who didst with pifall and with gin Beset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt... | |
 | Khayyam, Omar - 1989 - 142 страница
...Midnight by the Master of the Show; t>ut 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. 1 he Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He... | |
 | George Allan - 1990 - 344 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 checks,...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. 12 The poetry is glorious and the stoicism ennobling, but the way of detachment, says Toynbee, is ultimately... | |
 | Campbell Gillon - 1991 - 236 страница
...the words of Omar Khayyam: . . . [the] 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. Not the God Jesus reveals. Not the God to whom Jesus submits. We must all learn to say 'Thy will be... | |
 | William Pfaff - 1994 - 261 страница
...(FitzGerald's) "Rubaiyat" itself: But helpless Pieces in the Game [God] 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. A sense of victimization and impotence lies behind the phenomenon of revolutionary Islamic integrism... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 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. i»70^ The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And... | |
 | Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - 1997 - 342 страница
...Midnight by the Master of the Show;2i LXIX. Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one bv one back in the Closet lavs. For let Philosopher and Doctor preach Of what they will, and what they... | |
 | Michael S Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell, Ben Bycel - 1999 - 400 страница
...job in hand, and we play our parts. In the words of old Omar Khayyam, we are only Impotent pieces in the game He plays Upon this checkerboard of nights...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. What had this boy to do with it? He was not his own father; he was not his own mother; he was not his... | |
 | William S. Burroughs - 2000 - 308 страница
...protection. He never realized that there is always an enemy, or we would not be here. Of course. "On this checkerboard of Nights and days . . . Hither...and slays and one by one back in the Closet lays." Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam March 23, 1997. Sunday He suddenly saw and kept seeing what they had been... | |
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