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" dust. The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes, or it prospers ; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two, is gone. "
The National Geographic Magazine - Page 306
1926
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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Amos J. Cummings: (late a ...

United States. Congress - 1902 - 150 pages
...Abode his destin'd hour and went his way. The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two—was gone. And those who husbanded the golden grain, And those who flung it to the winds like...
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The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume: A Comparative Study in the Light of ...

Willard Clark Gore - Imagination - 1902 - 88 pages
...— riches, honor, and pleasure — with "the worldly hope men set their hearts upon," which — " Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone." It does not appear, however, that this dissatisfaction had any sentimental or aesthetic interest for...
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The Imagination in Spinoza and Hume: A Comparative Study in the Light of ...

Willard Clark Gore - Imagination - 1902 - 92 pages
...— riches, honor, and pleasure — with "the worldly hope men set their hearts upon," which — " Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone." It does not appear, however, that this dissatisfaction had any sentimental or aesthetic interest for...
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Extract from a letter of FitzGerald's relating to the "Rubáiyát", 2d ed ...

Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 352 pages
...dug up again. xvi i The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes—or it prospers; andanon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—was gone. xviii Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai (\ \ \_/ Whose Portals are alternate Night...
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City Temple Sermons

Reginald John Campbell - Congregational churches - 1903 - 296 pages
...that immortal pessimist, Omar Khayyam: "The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upcn Turns ashes—or it prospers ; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone." I will put the question to this busy City man, "What have you to say in answer to the...
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The World's Best Poetry ...: Of fancy, of sentiment; [introductory essay ...

John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 542 pages
...who flung it to the winds like Kain, XVI. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashej—or it prospers ; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone. XVII. Think, in this battered Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,...
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The World's Best Poetry ...

John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 618 pages
...once, Men want dug up again. TIME. 207 XVI. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashe3—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone. XVII. Think, in this battered Caravanseral Whose Portals are alternate Nighmt and Day,...
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The Prodigal Son

Sir Hall Caine - Iceland - 1904 - 428 pages
...PART VII 357 THE PRODIGAL SON PART I " The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes—or it prospers; and anon Like Snow upon the desert's dusty face Lighting a little hour or two—is gone." ICELAND had never looked more wonderful. The stern old Northland, which in the daylight...
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Miscellanies of Edward Fitzgerald

Edward FitzGerald - Omar Khayyam - 1904 - 268 pages
...; 1 " At once the silken Tassel of my Purse i " Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw." » XIV The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers ; and anon, XV And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain, Alike to...
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Preacher and Homiletic Monthly, Volume 49

1905 - 680 pages
...it pictures the futility and despair of life ; how man's hopes delude him and his mind deceives: " The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes;...it prospers; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusky face, Lighting a little hour or two, is gone." Our Old Testament is full of the same question....
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