 | American Academy of Arts and Letters - 1910 - 614 pagina’s
...counter-subject; while always there is an accompaniment persisting with a "strumming" sort of rhythm. II They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahrain, that great Hunter—the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, hut cannot break his Sleep. Allegro,... | |
 | 1926 - 902 pagina’s
...BY LIEUT.-COLONEL EL KENNION, CIE " Think in thia battered caravanserai, Whose doorways are eternal Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan, with his pomp, Abode his hour or two, and went his way." A TERM often applied to British rule in India is hakim-iwaqt, which... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1983 - 134 pagina’s
...the winds like rain, Think, in this batter'd caravanserai Whose doorways are alternate night and day, They say the lion and the lizard keep The courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as where some buried Caesar bled; And this delightful... | |
 | J. C. Heesterman - 1989 - 246 pagina’s
...society in general. This might be loosely described as the Omar Khayyam model: Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and...his Pomp, Abode his destined Hour, and went his way. [Rubaiyat, XVII] On the other hand, we have the alternative approach, a step removed from that summarised... | |
 | Adwaita P. Ganguly - 1990 - 442 pagina’s
...powers, as in these familiar lines of Omar Khayyam: Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.' 7 Literature has “always been a solace” to Aziz, “something that... | |
 | Malcolm Godden, Michael Lapidge - 1991 - 322 pagina’s
...Order of the World by Mackie's title Wonders of Creation). CHRISTINE FELL 10 Perceptions of transience They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam PREOCCUPATION with transience is not found solely within Old English elegiac... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 1996 - 252 pagina’s
...sweep of "the great river where De Soto lies"—an unchanging and unchangeable current of eternal good. They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep; And Bahrain, that great Hunter—the wild ass Stamps o'er his Head, but can not break his sleep. But the... | |
 | Ghulam Abbas Dalal - 1995 - 356 pagina’s
...temporary nature of existence, Umar Khayyam says: Think, in this battered Caravanserai Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abide his Hour or two, and went his way. 3 Ibn-i-Yamin expresses the same idea thus: 30 the use of... | |
 | Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - 1997 - 342 pagina’s
...upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—was gone. XVIII. Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and...Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour, and went his way. XIX. They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamsh¿rd... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1993 - 100 pagina’s
...As, buried once, Men want dug up again. ¿ i6¿ Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.” ¿ I7¿ They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamsh$d... | |
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