| Omar Khayyam - 1859 - 48 pages
...asking, whither hurried hence ! Another and another Cup to drown The Memory of this Impertinence ! XXXI. Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,13 And many Knots unravel'd by the Road ; But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate, xxxn. There... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 pages
...What, without asking, hither hurried Whence ? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence ! XXIX. XXXIV. Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,13 And many Knots unravel'd by the Road ; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate. There was the... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...hurried hence ! Ah, contrite Heaven endowed us with the vine, To drug the memory of that insolence ! " " Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate I rose, and on the throne of Saturn sate, And many knots unravelled by the road ; But not the master-knot of human fate. " There was the door to which... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...hurried hence ! Ah, contrite Heaven endowed us with the vine, To drug the memory of that insolence ! " " Up from earth's centre through the seventh gate I rose, and on the throne of Saturn sate, And many knots unravelled by the road ; Hut not the master-knot of human> fate. " There was the door to which... | |
| 1901 - 510 pages
...Master-Knot of Human Fate," by Ellis Meredith, takes its title from the familiar quatrain of Omar Khayyam: " Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate I...and on the Throne of Saturn sate. And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master- Knot of Human Fate." Another quatrain suggesting the theme... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 pages
...confess, with the epicureanism that after all is but inverted stoicism, and with unfaltering truth: Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate I...and on the Throne of Saturn sate, And many a Knot unravell'd by the Road; And not the Master-knot of Human Fate. Poetry, in short, as an ethical force,... | |
| 1877 - 1212 pages
...on one entire side of his life. Let him confess that in his journeyings through the stars he has " Many a knot unravelled by the road, But not the master-knot of human fate. " Or else, if he will not admit this, but will confine all our cares to this life and to this earth,... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 pages
...hurried hence ! O, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence ! _. XXXI. Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,12 And many a Knot unravell'd by the Road ; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate, XXXII. There... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 pages
...hurried hence ! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence ! XXXI. Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate, OMAR KHAYYAM. XXXII. There was the Door to which I found no Key ; There was the Veil through which... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 142 pages
...hurried hence ! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence ! XXXI. Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate, XXXII. There was the Door to which I found no Key ; There was the Veil through which I might not see... | |
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