 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
 | Francis St. John Thackeray, Edward Daniel Stone - 1902 - 324 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. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But here and there as strikes the Player goes ; And He... | |
 | Francis Hindes Groome, Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 230 страница
...moving row 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. Yet to how many critics this has seemed but a poem of the wine-cup and roses! FitzGerald proved a most... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1903 - 454 страница
...come and go Round with this Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show ; 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... | |
 | Mrs. David George Ritchie - 1903 - 392 страница
...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 chequer-board...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 —... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 страница
...and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show ; Hut helpless nguage The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or there as strikes the Player goes ; And lie... | |
 | Morris Joseph - 1903 - 552 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. But they never act as if they thought so. Their conduct of life is based upon the conviction that their... | |
 | Malcolm James McLeod - 1903 - 224 страница
...In 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." Perhaps our Puritan elders in attempting to curb the youthfulness of youth made life grim-visaged and... | |
 | 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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