The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. The North American Review - Pagina 579geredigeerd door - 1869Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| George Jackson - 1903 - 272 pagina’s
...delivered over to the tormentors until we have paid the uttermost farthing. " The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it." And this is all that writers such... | |
| 1884 - 428 pagina’s
...face were covered up, would show that he is absorbed in his work ; that, " The moving finger writes ; and, having writ. Moves on ; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line. Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." Several of the symbolical designs,... | |
| David L. Hale - 2002 - 280 pagina’s
...homesickness, really. It was an aching nostalgia for a life that used to be. The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam... | |
| John Crowley - 2009 - 317 pagina’s
...beaked storky guy with a bobbing Adam's apple recited in a weird basso: "The moving finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. " Many nodded when another girl began,... | |
| Robert C. Solomon - 2003 - 256 pagina’s
...most powerful promoters of modern fatalism, Making Good Sense of Fatalism The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit, Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it, — The Rubdiytit of Omar Khayyam... | |
| Joseph Lewis - 2003 - 168 pagina’s
...to life. Because, the Bible Deity to the contrary notwithstanding, when, "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it." MY GRANDSON When my daughter's child... | |
| Lee M. Maxwell - 2003 - 136 pagina’s
...And finally: Do not ask who does the laundry in our house. It's a secret. "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. " The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam List... | |
| Bill Eykyn - 2003 - 166 pagina’s
...written by the 12th century mathematician Omar Khayyam, in his Rubdiydt: The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. The Man from the Fed It really is... | |
| Robert Kastenbaum - 2004 - 461 pagina’s
...lesson. This verse, then new to me, appeared across from a severed hand: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.h Granted, this was probably not the... | |
| Stacy Taus-Bolstad - 2004 - 84 pagina’s
...Divan, which many modern Iranians still quote. 47 THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a word of it. A statue of Omar Khayyam. | While... | |
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