 | 1908 - 1066 páginas
...type of paganism : it is the worship of nature. " We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow Shapes that come and go Round with this Sun-illumined...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
...Midnight by the Master of the Show ;31 LXIX. Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-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 and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And... | |
 | Robert Durie Osborn - 1876 - 486 páginas
...sport of a capricious and pitiless Destiny — — pieces of the game He plays Upon this chequer-board of nights and 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
...sport of a capricious and pitiless Destiny — — pieces of the game He plays Upon this chequer-board of nights and 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... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 476 páginas
...At midnight by the master of the show : Impotent 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." Now in all this assumption there is nothing inconsistent with the conception of God... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 páginas
...held In Midnight by the Master of the Show ; 21 53 llJ ^•rt -v. .a --..|-.>-.-^-.jj»J*maArCTW LXIX. Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board...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... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 142 páginas
...by the Master of the Show ; LXIX. But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-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 and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes ; And... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 páginas
...by the Master of the Show ; LXIX. But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-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 and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes ; And... | |
 | Robert Henry Elliot - 1879 - 376 páginas
...In midnight by the master of the show; Impotent pieces of the game he plays Upon this chequer-board of nights and days; Hither and thither moves, and...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... | |
 | 1880 - 820 páginas
...indeed, we are thus to interpret him : " We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes, that come and go Round with this sun-illumined lantern,...slays, And, one by one, back in the closet lays." This is the answer of poetic or philosophic pantheism and fatalism. The third answer is that of philosophic... | |
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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. 
