Rubáiyát of Omar Khayy ́am: English, French, and German Translations Comparatively Arranged in Accordance with the Text of Edward Fitzgerald's Version, Volume 1Joseph Knight Company, 1896 - Bookbinding |
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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYY AM, Volume 2 Omar Khayyam,Edward 1809-1883 Fitzgerald,Nathan Haskell 1852-1935 Dole No preview available - 2016 |
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayy Am: English, French, and German ..., Volume 2 Nathan Haskell Dole,Edward Fitzgerald,Omar Khayyam No preview available - 2015 |
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1889 FitzGerald Appendix Balkh better bien Bodenstedt breath c'est Caravanserai clay copy coupe cries dark death Dieu divine Drink wine dust earth edition of FitzGerald einst Epicurean eternal Fate flaming shoulders Garcin de Tassy Garner genius Gott hand heart Hell Herz Himmel houris last line Lebens lines of Whinfield live Lucretius Malik Shah McCarthy monde Moon morgen mystic Naishápúr never Nicolas night Omar Khayyám Omar's once Oriental Ouseley Paradise pass Persian literature Persian poets poem poetic poetry Potter Professor Cowell qu'il quatrains reads repentance rose Rubá'iy Rubáiyát says Schack schon second edition secrets sorrow soul spring stanza Súfi Sultan sweet Tavern thee things thou thought tion to-day To-morrow tomb translation Umar's veil verse Vine Von Hammer Von Schack Wein Welt wheel of heaven Whinfield whither wieder William Aldis Wright wine words
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Page cxxviii - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Page clxxviii - 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!
Page xlviii - Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain— This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
Page cxiv - Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Page 32 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.
Page clxvii - Hair, they say, divides the False and True; Yes; and a single Alif were the clue — Could you but find it — to the Treasure-house, And peradventure to THE MASTER too...
Page clix - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh ! Wilderness were Paradise enow ! XII " How sweet is mortal Sovrainty ! " — think some ; Others " How blest the Paradise to come!
Page clxiii - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door as in I went.
Page clxi - And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom...
Page clxv - For I remember stopping by the way To watch a Potter thumping his wet Clay: And with its all-obliterated Tongue It murmur'd — "Gently, Brother, gently, pray!