 | 1908 - 1066 páginas
...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...slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays." The answer to the questions of religion that the higher powers are like nature and find in nature their... | |
 | Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 70 páginas
...come and go Eound with this Sun-illumin'd Lantern hejd In Midnight by the Master of the Show ;31 LXIX. Impotent 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 Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And... | |
 | Robert Durie Osborn - 1876 - 486 páginas
...humanity ; men, so it seemed to the poet, were the sport of a capricious and pitiless Destiny — — pieces of the game He plays Upon this chequer-board...days, Hither and thither moves, and checks and slays, Then one by one back in the closet lays. Speculation as to the future was unprofitable — the endeavour... | |
 | Robert Durie Osborn - 1876 - 482 páginas
...humanity ; men, so it seemed to the poet, were the sport of a capricious and pitiless Destiny — — pieces of the game He plays Upon this chequer-board...days, Hither and thither moves, and checks and slays, Then one by one back in the closet lays. Speculation as to the future was unprofitable — the endeavour... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 páginas
...sun-illumin'd laatern held In midnight by tho master of the show. " Impotent pieces of the game IIP plays Upon this chequer-board of nights and days : Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slaya, And one by one back in the closet lays." " The moving finger writes, and. having writ, Moves... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 476 páginas
...that come and go Round with the sun-illumiu'd lantern held At midnight by the master of the show : Impotent pieces of the game he plays Upon this chequer-board...moves, and checks, and slays, And, one by one, back in the'closet lays." Now in all this assumption there is nothing inconsistent with the conception of God... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 páginas
...-v. .a --..|-.>-.-^-.jj»J*maArCTW LXIX. 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. LXX. The Ball no question makes of Ayes anc But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And He that... | |
 | Robert Henry Elliot - 1879 - 376 páginas
...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...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. Rabdiydt of Omar Khayyam. JOHN GRANT'S letter was indeed a godsend, and our hero looked forward anxiously... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 142 páginas
...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... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
