 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.  The Modern Review - Página 5431884Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 páginas
...soon expire. LXXIII. We are no other than a moving row Of visionary Shapes that come and go LXXIV. Impotent 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 Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And He... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 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 checks...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 1878 - 612 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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