| Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 312 страница
...come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held J In Midnight by the Master of the Show ; LXIX But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays§ Upon this...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... | |
| ROBERT BROWNING - 1902 - 62 страница
...the pessimistic Omar is made the guide to it Even his conception of God offers no hope; for we are But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this...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... | |
| Robert Browning - 1902 - 74 страница
...the pessimistic Omar is made the guide to it. Even his conception of God offers no hope; for we are But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this...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
...come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held \ In Midnight by the Master of the Show; LXIX But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays§ Upon this...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... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 350 страница
...Round with this Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show; 22 LXXIV Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board...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... | |
| Alice MacGowan - 1902 - 490 страница
..." Your own dear Omar describes it. " ' 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.' ' That is what he said about it eight hundred years ago. It was unorthodox then; it is just as unorthodox... | |
| 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.... | |
| Morris Joseph - 1903 - 552 страница
...shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the sun-illumined lantern held In midnight by the Master of the show. But helpless pieces of the game he plays Upon this...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. But they never act as if they thought so. Their conduct of life is based upon the conviction that their... | |
| Mrs. David George Ritchie - 1903 - 392 страница
...that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined lantern held At midnight by the Master of the Show : But helpless pieces of the Game He plays Upon this...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 —... | |
| Hartwig Kuhlenbeck - 1975 - 1042 страница
...the Closet lays." (1859, XLIX) "Impotent Pieces of the Game It plays Upon this Chequer-board of Night and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays." (sic seem, 1872, LXIX) "The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the... | |
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