Miscellanies of Edward FitzgeraldG. Routledge and Sons, 1904 - 247 páginas |
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... any Persian poet's , and , though per- haps fugitively composed , the result of no fugitive emotion . or thought , are probably the work and event of his life , leaving little else to record . Perhaps he liked a OMAR KHAYYẨM 3.
... any Persian poet's , and , though per- haps fugitively composed , the result of no fugitive emotion . or thought , are probably the work and event of his life , leaving little else to record . Perhaps he liked a OMAR KHAYYẨM 3.
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... perhaps before Nizám - ul - Mulk's generosity raised him to independence . Many Persian poets similarly derive their names from their occupations ; thus we have Attár , a druggist , ' Assár , ' an oil - presser , ' etc. " ( Though all ...
... perhaps before Nizám - ul - Mulk's generosity raised him to independence . Many Persian poets similarly derive their names from their occupations ; thus we have Attár , a druggist , ' Assár , ' an oil - presser , ' etc. " ( Though all ...
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... perhaps in Oriental , poetry , helped by its very virtue perhaps to render him less popular with his countrymen . If the Greeks were children in gossip , what does Persian literature imply but a second childishness of garrulity ? And ...
... perhaps in Oriental , poetry , helped by its very virtue perhaps to render him less popular with his countrymen . If the Greeks were children in gossip , what does Persian literature imply but a second childishness of garrulity ? And ...
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... perhaps a less than equal pro- portion of the " Drink and make merry , " which ( genuine or not ) recurs over - frequently in the original . For , Lucre- tian as Omar's genuis might be , he crossed that darker mood with much of Oliver ...
... perhaps a less than equal pro- portion of the " Drink and make merry , " which ( genuine or not ) recurs over - frequently in the original . For , Lucre- tian as Omar's genuis might be , he crossed that darker mood with much of Oliver ...
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... so Hare says . " Perhaps not , " I replied ; " but then , on the other hand , not so Catholic ; which you and Lexilogus will agree with me is a great advantage . " This I said slyly , Euphranor being rather taken with 24 EUPHRANOR.
... so Hare says . " Perhaps not , " I replied ; " but then , on the other hand , not so Catholic ; which you and Lexilogus will agree with me is a great advantage . " This I said slyly , Euphranor being rather taken with 24 EUPHRANOR.
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Página 164 - ... 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.
Página 148 - 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.
Página 11 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Página 128 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the humane conceits) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it.
Página 20 - Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate 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!
Página 12 - For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.
Página 43 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 115 - O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause...
Página 12 - 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! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.
Página 11 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.