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Side xxviii
... falling off in places ; on this and on the plaster of the recess are innumerable scribblings in Persian character . Some were , no doubt , names , for the British John Smith has not an exclusive tendency in this respect ; but many of ...
... falling off in places ; on this and on the plaster of the recess are innumerable scribblings in Persian character . Some were , no doubt , names , for the British John Smith has not an exclusive tendency in this respect ; but many of ...
Side 2
... ' to whomsoever this fortune falls , he shall share it ' equally with the rest , and reserve no pre - eminence for himself . Be it so , ' we both replied , and on those ' terms we mutually pledged our words . Years rolled 2 OMAR KHAYYÁM ,
... ' to whomsoever this fortune falls , he shall share it ' equally with the rest , and reserve no pre - eminence for himself . Be it so , ' we both replied , and on those ' terms we mutually pledged our words . Years rolled 2 OMAR KHAYYÁM ,
Side 11
... falls over in the last . As usual with such kind of Oriental Verse , the Rubáiyát follow one another according to Alpha- betic Rhyme a strange succession of Grave and Gay . Those here selected are strung into something of an Eclogue ...
... falls over in the last . As usual with such kind of Oriental Verse , the Rubáiyát follow one another according to Alpha- betic Rhyme a strange succession of Grave and Gay . Those here selected are strung into something of an Eclogue ...
Side 23
... , Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run , The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop , The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one . VIII And look- —a thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke Fourth Edition . RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM . 23.
... , Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run , The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop , The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one . VIII And look- —a thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke Fourth Edition . RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM . 23.
Side 62
... Fall to Sin ? LVIII Oh , Thou , who Man of baser Earth didst make And who with Eden didst devise the Snake ; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd , Man's Forgiveness give — and take ! KÚZA - NÁMA . LIX LISTEN again ...
... Fall to Sin ? LVIII Oh , Thou , who Man of baser Earth didst make And who with Eden didst devise the Snake ; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd , Man's Forgiveness give — and take ! KÚZA - NÁMA . LIX LISTEN again ...
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ABSÁL Æsop AGAMEMNON Argos Bacon Baghdad beauty better blood blow breath call'd called Carlyle CASSANDRA CHIG Chivalry CHORUS clay CLYTEMNESTRA Crabbe dark Divine Doctor doth drink Dust Earth Euphranor Ev'n eyes Fate Father Fitzgerald friends genius Glory Gods Goethe Háfiz hand head heart Heaven Honour human Jámí King Lexilogus light lips live look Lord Lycion Malik Shah man's matter Menelaus mind Moon Moral Muezzin Naishápúr nature never Nicolas night Nishapur Omar Khayyám once Pantheism passion perhaps Persian Phidippus Plato Poems Poet Poet's Polonius poor Priam Quatrain remember rose Rubáiyát SALÁMÁN says scarce SHAH Song Soul Stanza story Súfi Sultan suppose sweet tell thee thine things thou thought Throne thyself tion tomb Troy true truth turn'd verse Whinfield Wine wise woman young Youth Zeus
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Side 59 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Side 434 - ... certain it is that, whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another: he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Side 73 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Side 48 - You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of t he Vine to Spouse.
Side 20 - Awake! for morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And lo! the hunter of the east has caught The sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Side 76 - The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Side 362 - Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws...
Side 33 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End!
Side 429 - A strange thing, that that part of an orator which is but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution and the rest; nay almost alone, as if it were all in all. But the reason is plain. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent.
Side 410 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.