 | 1906 - 594 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1907 - 974 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1885 - 980 psl.
...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... | |
 | Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 70 psl.
...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...inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help — for It As impotently rolls as you or... | |
 | 1878 - 612 psl.
...down into the field, He knows about it all — HE knows— HE knows ! " 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." Few of the Rubaiyat are so consecutive as these, most of them being in a great measure independent... | |
 | 1908 - 940 psl.
...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,... | |
 | 1876 - 502 psl.
...that come and go Round with this sun-illumined lantern, held In midnight by the master of the show. And that inverted bowl they call the sky, Whereunder...cooped we live and die. Lift not your hands to it, for it for help As impotently rolls as you or I. Yesterday this day's madness Jid prepare ; To-morrow's... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 psl.
...the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!2 Y OF LXXI. N 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. I ,. ll' f LXXII. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and... | |
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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. 
