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Side xxvi
... matter , was one of the party . We found the ground nearly all the way covered with mounds , and the soil mixed with fragments of pottery , sure indications of former habitations . As we neared the tomb , long ridges of earth could be ...
... matter , was one of the party . We found the ground nearly all the way covered with mounds , and the soil mixed with fragments of pottery , sure indications of former habitations . As we neared the tomb , long ridges of earth could be ...
Side xxix
... matter what his character may have been , for the preservation of the site of Omar Khayam's burial place ; the preservation of the one necessarily preserved the other . In front of the Imamzadah is the garden , with some very old and ...
... matter what his character may have been , for the preservation of the site of Omar Khayam's burial place ; the preservation of the one necessarily preserved the other . In front of the Imamzadah is the garden , with some very old and ...
Side 10
... diverted himself with speculative problems of Deity , Destiny , Matter and Spirit , Good and Evil , and other such questions , easier to start than to run down , and the pursuit of which becomes a very weary sport 10 OMAR KHAYYÁM ,
... diverted himself with speculative problems of Deity , Destiny , Matter and Spirit , Good and Evil , and other such questions , easier to start than to run down , and the pursuit of which becomes a very weary sport 10 OMAR KHAYYÁM ,
Side 16
... Matter as well as Spirit , and into whose Universe one expects uncon- sciously to merge after Death , without hope of any posthumous Beatitude in another world to compensate for all one's self - denial in this . Lucretius ' blind ...
... Matter as well as Spirit , and into whose Universe one expects uncon- sciously to merge after Death , without hope of any posthumous Beatitude in another world to compensate for all one's self - denial in this . Lucretius ' blind ...
Side 106
... matter in hand : many of these of a comic and grotesque Character mimicking the more serious , as may the Gracioso of the Spanish Drama . As for the metre of the Poem , it is the same as that adopted by Attár , Jelaluddín and other such ...
... matter in hand : many of these of a comic and grotesque Character mimicking the more serious , as may the Gracioso of the Spanish Drama . As for the metre of the Poem , it is the same as that adopted by Attár , Jelaluddín and other such ...
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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.