 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.  Written on Their Foreheads - Страница 253написао/ла Robert Henry Elliot - 1879Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887
...helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days: Hither and thither mows, and checks, 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... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1888
...the conflict of inner and outer circumstances ; in other words, fatalism." Compare this with Omar: " We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes...and 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... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1888 - 124 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 - 266 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... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1888 - 188 страница
...Show. " Important Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker, board of Nights and Days ; H ither and Thither moves and checks and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. " The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right and Left as strikes the Player goes, And He... | |
 | 1906
...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...and 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... | |
 | Charles M. Clark - 1889 - 554 страница
...lantern held In midnight by the master of the show; But helpless pieces of the game he plays Upon the chequer-board of nights and days; Hither and thither...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. The ball no question makes of ayes and noes, But here and there, as strikes the players, goes; And... | |
 | 1889
...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,... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1889 - 301 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...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. " The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes; And He... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1889 - 284 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... | |
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