 | 1975 - 922 страница
...and go Round with the Sun-illumin'd Lantern held in Midnight by the Master of the Show; But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. First European contacts. While the Aztalan farmers were growing corn and defending their village, western... | |
 | Franz Rosenthal - 1975 - 202 страница
...one by one back in the Closet lays. Or, according to a later version of Fitzgerald's : But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board...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
...interpreting the divine power. We are . . . But Helpless 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. (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
...and go Round with the Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show; t>ut helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board...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
...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 Chequer-board...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
...president of the immortals who, with capricious hand, in the words of Omar Khayyam: . . . [the] helpless Pieces of the game he plays Upon this Chequer-board...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
...on his side, Toynbee quoted (FitzGerald's) "Rubaiyat" itself: But helpless Pieces in the Game [God] plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days;...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
...and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantem held In Midnight by the Master of the Show; But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board...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
...come and go Round with this Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;2i LXIX. Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board...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... | |
 | Kelly King - 2000 - 506 страница
...now. But first there were things he had to do, to earn his place with her. 456 Moving on But helpless Pieces of the Game He Plays Upon this Chequer-board...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. — RusAivAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Listening to her son's car receding until the sound died, Hiroko sighed,... | |
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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. 
