 | 1906 - 594 pages
...injustice can be undone by present legislation or indeed by any present action. ' The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on ; nor all your piety nor...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.' Let us suppose that some great aristocrat in the eighteenth century unjustly increased his fortune... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...memorials once scratched upon these time-honored stones cannot be erased. The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your piety nor...a line. Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. ET MURRAY SMITH. From The Contemporary Review. LIFK IN A FRENCH COMMUNE. In dealing with French customs... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 pages
...into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows ! B LXXVI. The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor...a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. LXXVII. For let Philosopher and Doctor preach Of what they will, and what they will not — each Is... | |
 | Children - 1907 - 974 pages
...only hope. In no other condition are the words of the Rubaiyat more true : "The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on : Nor all your Piety nor...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a Word of it." Dr. Balleray says : "The sins of commission are the sins of the operative gynecologist; he does the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1869 - 650 pages
...noes, But right or left, as strikes the player, goes ; And he that tossed you down into the field, He knows about it all, — he knows, HE knows ! " The...on : nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor shall your tears wash out a word of it." " For let philosopher and doctor... | |
 | American literature - 1885 - 980 pages
...our examples takes its subject from the quatrain, "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Movts on ; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." The recording angel, with unmoving eyes and lips, traces upon the leaves of a book ; two figures attend... | |
 | American literature - 1878 - 612 pages
...noes, But right or left as strikes the Player goes ; And He that tossed you down into the field, He knows about it all — HE knows— HE knows ! " The...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." Few of the Rubaiyat are so consecutive as these, most of them being in a great measure independent... | |
 | Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 70 pages
...the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows !33 : LXXI. I/ The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor...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... | |
 | Minnesota - 1908 - 940 pages
...commonwealth which they served. The words of Omar Khayyam fit this hour : "The moving finger writes, and having writ, Moves on ; nor all your piety nor...cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a breath of it." GENERAL JAMES H. BAKER said : In Horace Austin, the sixth governor of the state of Minnesota,... | |
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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. 
