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Side xi
... mind , and coloured his thoughts to such a degree that even when he oversteps the largest licence allowed to a translator , his phrases reproduce the spirit and manner of his original with a nearer approach to perfection than would ...
... mind , and coloured his thoughts to such a degree that even when he oversteps the largest licence allowed to a translator , his phrases reproduce the spirit and manner of his original with a nearer approach to perfection than would ...
Side xiii
... minds of the great departed . Fitzgerald's enjoyment of gnomic wisdom en- shrined in words of exquisite propriety was evinced by the frequency with which he used to read Montaigne's essays and Madame de Sévigné's letters , and the vari ...
... minds of the great departed . Fitzgerald's enjoyment of gnomic wisdom en- shrined in words of exquisite propriety was evinced by the frequency with which he used to read Montaigne's essays and Madame de Sévigné's letters , and the vari ...
Side xxvi
... ; this will be better understood by stating that city walls , houses , and almost all structures in that part of Persia , are built of mud . The blue dome , as well as its 分- size , produced in my mind , as xxvi OMAR KHAYYAM'S GRAVE .
... ; this will be better understood by stating that city walls , houses , and almost all structures in that part of Persia , are built of mud . The blue dome , as well as its 分- size , produced in my mind , as xxvi OMAR KHAYYAM'S GRAVE .
Side xxvii
Edward FitzGerald. 分- size , produced in my mind , as we went towards it , a great satisfaction ; it was pleasing to think that the countrymen of Omar Khayam held him in such high estimation as to erect so fine a monument , as well as ...
Edward FitzGerald. 分- size , produced in my mind , as we went towards it , a great satisfaction ; it was pleasing to think that the countrymen of Omar Khayam held him in such high estimation as to erect so fine a monument , as well as ...
Side xxviii
... mind and revived my spirits from the depression produced by finding that the principal tomb was not that of the Poet . The monument over the tomb is an oblong mass of brick covered with plaster , and without ornament , - the plaster ...
... mind and revived my spirits from the depression produced by finding that the principal tomb was not that of the Poet . The monument over the tomb is an oblong mass of brick covered with plaster , and without ornament , - the plaster ...
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ABSÁL Æsop AGAMEMNON Argos atheism Bacon Baghdad beauty better blood blow breath call'd called Carlyle CASSANDRA CHIG Chivalry CHORUS clay CLYTEMNESTRA 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 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.