 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1888 - 476 страница
...that come and go Round with this sun-illumined lantern held In midnight by the Master of the show ; Impotent pieces of the game he plays Upon this chequer-board...slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. The moving finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on ; nor all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1888 - 136 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... | |
 | Thomas C. Evans - 1888 - 284 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 box he lays. " The moving finger writes and, having writ, Moves on ; nor all your piety nor wit Can... | |
 | 1906 - 554 страница
...poet : ' We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go. . . But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board...slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. ' The nearest Whitman comes to this sort of self-contempt and infidelity is in the lines ' As I Ebb'd with... | |
 | 1889 - 1024 страница
...A DRAMATIC STORY. BY SELTNA DOLARO. We are but pieces in 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. PHILADELPHIA: DEDICATION. TO AM PALMER, ESQ., PALMER'S AND MADISON SQUARE THEATRES, NEW YORK. To you,... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1889 - 334 страница
...lantern, held At midnight by the master of the show ; Impotent pieces of the game he plays Upon his chequer-board of nights and days ; Hither and thither...moves, and checks and slays, And one by one back in the cupboard lays." In the East pessimism has been particularly prevalent. It forms the essence of the... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 532 страница
...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 Chequer-board of Nights and Days; LXX. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And... | |
 | 1890 - 660 страница
...that come and go Round with this sun-illumin'd Lantern, held In midnight by the Master of the Show : Impotent pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. I wish I might quote the four magnificent stanzas of which the following is the last : Oh Thou, who... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - 240 страница
...been suggested by Mr. Fitzgerald's version of the Eubaiydt of Omar, where men are described as — Impotent pieces of the game He plays Upon this chequer-board...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. Brought to understand A sad astrology, the boundless plan That makes you tyrants in your iron skies,... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - 244 страница
...Fitzgerald's version of the Rubaiydt of Omar, where men are described as — Impotent pieces of the game Ho plays Upon this chequer-board of nights and days ;...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. Brought to understand A sad astrology, the boundless plan That makes you tyrants in your iron skies,... | |
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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. 
