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Side xv
... age , and reveals a kindred felicity , strength , and directness of language . It deserves to rank with his best efforts in poetry , but its ill- K success made him feel that the publication of his BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . XV.
... age , and reveals a kindred felicity , strength , and directness of language . It deserves to rank with his best efforts in poetry , but its ill- K success made him feel that the publication of his BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . XV.
Side xvi
Edward FitzGerald. K success made him feel that the publication of his name was an unfavourable experiment , and he never again repeated it . His great modesty , however , would suffi- ciently account for this shyness . Of " Omar Khayyám ...
Edward FitzGerald. K success made him feel that the publication of his name was an unfavourable experiment , and he never again repeated it . His great modesty , however , would suffi- ciently account for this shyness . Of " Omar Khayyám ...
Side xxv
... feel sure that what I enclose in this letter will be acceptable . The rose - leaves I gathered to - day , grow- ing beside the tomb of the poet at this place , and the seeds are from the same bushes on which the leaves grew . * I ...
... feel sure that what I enclose in this letter will be acceptable . The rose - leaves I gathered to - day , grow- ing beside the tomb of the poet at this place , and the seeds are from the same bushes on which the leaves grew . * I ...
Side 84
... And a flask of wine , if ' t is to be had somewhere On the tillage's grassy skirt Alack ! though most May think it a sin , I feel that my heaven is there ! 82 413 234 448 247 ( F. ) 413 in the original — ( N. 84 NOTES BY THE EDITOR .
... And a flask of wine , if ' t is to be had somewhere On the tillage's grassy skirt Alack ! though most May think it a sin , I feel that my heaven is there ! 82 413 234 448 247 ( F. ) 413 in the original — ( N. 84 NOTES BY THE EDITOR .
Side 94
... testimony of an old MS . , according to M. Nicolas , the third line of this stanza ought to run thus : " I drink the wine ; ' t is Thou who feel'st its power- " * SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL . TRANSLATED FROM THE PERSIAN OF 94 NOTES BY THE EDITOR .
... testimony of an old MS . , according to M. Nicolas , the third line of this stanza ought to run thus : " I drink the wine ; ' t is Thou who feel'st its power- " * SALÁMÁN AND ABSÁL . TRANSLATED FROM THE PERSIAN OF 94 NOTES BY THE EDITOR .
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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.