 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 Lost Cities of Ceylon - Page iiiby Geraldine Edith Mitton - 1917 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wilsey Martin - English poetry - 1891 - 92 pages
...HARVARD COLLEGE U88ARY FROM THE B^'.'EST OF EVERT J ».r; EN WENDELL 1918 ' 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. OMAR-I-KHAYTAM. TO THE QUAINT, ART- LOVING, AND ERUDITE FRATERNITY YCLKPED 'YE SETTE OF ODDE VOLUMES"... | |
 | William Wilsey Martin - 1891 - 124 pages
...SIGN OK THE BODLEY HEAD IN VIGO STREET 1891 ' The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves oit, ; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. OMAR-I-KHAYTAM. TO THE QUAINT, ART-LOVING, AND ERUDITE FRATERNITY 'YE SETTE OF ODDE VOLUMES" ( George... | |
 | Joseph Krauskopf - Reform Judaism - 1892 - 418 pages
...repentance, however sincere, cannot make them otherwise than neglect and misdeed. "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." Unless there is a change for the better, repentance is like continual pumping in a leaking ship without... | |
 | Book clubs - 1893 - 310 pages
...IN VIGO STREET 1891 1-l'oNTiM'IFCti— liBOI'Hl.F M.MMiN < Q"A i I! HI'. ' The Mooing Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on ; nor all your Piety nor...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.' OMAH-I-KHAYYAM. TO THE QUAINT, ART-LOVING, AND ERUDITE FRATERNITY YCLEPED 'YE SETTE OF ODDE VOLUMES"... | |
 | Mary Cholmondeley - 1893 - 600 pages
...can see nothing with the sun in my eyes." Diana Tempest. I. CHAPTER XVI. "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." OMAR KHAYYAM. "WHAT thou doest do quickly," has been advice which, in its melancholy sarcasm, has been... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - English literature - 1893 - 458 pages
...Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show. LXXI. 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. LXXXII. As under cover of departing Day Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan1 away, Once more within the Potter's... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Bible - 1894 - 104 pages
...Thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closest lays. 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, And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Where under crawling cooped we live and die — Lift not... | |
 | Charles Gordon Ames - Conduct of life - 1894 - 124 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. — Omar Khayam. Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back. —... | |
 | Anthony Hope - 1894 - 276 pages
...: "The moving Finger writes, and having writ Moves on, nor all your piety nor wit Can lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." " And yet," said Philip, stretching out a hand to the flickering blaze, " we go on being pious and... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 802 pages
...knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows t The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves oti : nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel...a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. And that inverted bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawlihg coop'd we live and die, Lift not your... | |
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