 | Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 pages
...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 - American fiction - 1869 - 650 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | American literature - 1878 - 612 pages
...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 - Arabs - 1876 - 486 pages
...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 - Arabs - 1876 - 482 pages
...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1876 - 1022 pages
...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 - Apologetics - 1877 - 476 pages
...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 pages
...-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...Closet lays. LXX. The Ball no question makes of Ayes anc But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows... | |
 | Robert Henry Elliot - Agriculture - 1879 - 376 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
