 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1870 - 438 pages
...The moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on : not all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. With Earth's first clay they did the last Man knead, And there of the last Harvest sowed the seed :... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1870 - 446 pages
...The moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on: not all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. With Earth's first clay they did the last Man knead, And there of the last Harvest sowed the seed:... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1870 - 436 pages
...The moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on: not all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. With Earth's first clay they did the last Man knead, And there of the last Harvest sowed the seed :... | |
 | Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 70 pages
...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. LXXII. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not... | |
 | Fanny Lewald - 1875 - 412 pages
..." The moving finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on, nor all your piety and wit Can lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." There was nothing to be done. She must forget ; forget everything—forget him. But how could she ?... | |
 | 1879 - 912 pages
...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." But the parables of Jesus are the height of fine art in teaching religion, in part because they are... | |
 | 1878 - 1048 pages
..." The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on, nor all your piety nor wit Shall move it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." this situation, what is to bo done ? Our burthen is greater than we can bear. If it is to be borne... | |
 | 1878 - 876 pages
...The moving finger writes ; and haying writ, Moves on : nor all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. (2.) The second reason, which the Apostle assigns for a wise use of life is the Transitorinest of tfo... | |
 | Robert Henry Elliot - 1879 - 376 pages
...The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. And that inverted bowl they call the sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...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. 1 Stanza l MARTIN LUTHER. 1483-1 ;J46. A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never... | |
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and having writ, Moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit Will lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. 
