 | Robert William Chambers - Manners and customs - 1898 - 318 pages
...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. FITZGERALD. ON the evening of the I5th the cavalry left by moonlight, riding along the railroad toward... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 564 pages
...helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checkerboard of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, 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... | |
 | Nathan Haskell Dole - Iran - 1898 - 392 pages
...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.'1 " 1 "Yes, and did you not compose one with the same thought, comparing life to our great game... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 464 pages
...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...lays. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes ; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about... | |
 | Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Epiphanius Wilson - Oriental literature - 1899 - 478 pages
...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...lays. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes ; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - English poetry - 1899 - 192 pages
...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. Heaven and hell are reflections, the one of thy goodness, and the other of thy wrath. LXVIII. This... | |
 | Samuel Law Wilson - Christianity in literature - 1899 - 476 pages
...helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon His Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays." " We had all played," says Hammond, the leading character in the book, " and we had all lost. Destiny... | |
 | Oriental literature - 1900 - 462 pages
...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...lays. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes ; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about... | |
 | 1900 - 172 pages
...E 2, lxxi 4 lxvii 2 E 2, lxxii 2 lxviii 2 E 2, lxxiii 2 . lxix 2 EI, xlix I lxix 3 EI, xlix 3 And. And one by one back in the Closet lays The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes . And He that toss'd you down into the Field And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field . and, having... | |
 | Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - Persian poetry - 1900 - 162 pages
...helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon his Chequer-board of Nights and Days: Hither and thither moves, and checks, 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; 114... | |
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Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. 
