| Robert Henry Elliot - 1879 - 376 páginas
...The Moving Finger writes ; aud, having writ, Moves on : nor all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. And that inverted bowl they call the sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your... | |
| Freemasons. Massachusetts. Scottish rite - 1879 - 882 páginas
...in Truro, Mass., June I7th, 1832. Died in Cambridgeport, May 26th, I885. "The moving finger writes; and having writ, Moves on ; nor 'all your piety nor wit Shall call it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL... | |
| 1880 - 670 páginas
...stanza, taken from Owar at haphazard, read as if Mr. Emerson had penned it? " The moving finger writes ; and. having writ. Moves on ; nor all your piety nor...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." Here are some of our author's own critical summaries, that serve to illustrate his taste and judgment... | |
| 1919 - 960 páginas
...—Portland 0,etonian COLD FEET! Passing Sham {London). HISTORY'S NEW PAGE "The iMoving Finper writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor...back to cancel half a line. Nor all your tears wash put a word of it." — John Bull (Lvndon). BEGGARED! "Sic transit gloria mundi." — Campana de Gracia... | |
| Fanny Lewald - 1881 - 422 páginas
..." The moving Bnger writes, and, having writ, Moves on, nor all your piety and wit Can lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." There was nothing to be done. She must forget ; forget everything — forget him. But how could she... | |
| 1888 - 492 páginas
...you down into the Field, He knows about it all — He knows — He knows. The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on ; nor all your Piety nor...a Line, Nor all your tears wash out a Word of it. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Where under crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...Henry Roscoe. KHAYYAM. — LUTHER. — SIRMOND. 571 OMAR KHAYYAM. The moving Finger writes, and, Laving writ, Moves on ; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall...a line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. From the Rubaiyat.1 Stanza Ixxi. MARTIN LUTHER. 1 483-1546. A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark... | |
| Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 350 páginas
...facts. The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on, nor all your pity nor wit Can move it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. Never repent, unless by repentance you mean drawing lessons from past experience. Beating against the... | |
| Jesus Christ - 1885 - 288 páginas
...its own presence in the very progress which the reactionist bewails. " God's moving finger writes ; and having writ, Moves on ; nor all your piety nor...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." (2.) But again, we may wisely accept the modern idea of the oneness of all truth as an influence appointed... | |
| Edward Nicoll Dickerson - 1885 - 76 páginas
...discovery or invention. This is the record, and so it will stand forever. " The moying finger writes ; and having writ, " Moves on : nor all your piety nor...cancel half a line, " Nor all your tears wash out one word of it." Forty years had fled away since as teacher and pupil we first met, and they seemed... | |
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