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The "Kasidah" was written in 1853, and it is, in its opening, much like Fitz Gerald's Rubaiyat, though Burton never saw that gem of philosophy and song, until eight years after. "The Kasidah" was not printed until 1880. It is difficult to interpret, because it so clearly interprets itself. It must be read. It cannot be "explained."
Yes, certainly: Read books that come to stay the kind of books you would like to be as a man. The Rubaiyat would deserve mention but for the danger of misunderstanding its message. Rightly read Omar Khayyam's lesson is serenity and poise and that power and happiness which come from these. The disciple of the tent-maker is not apt to lose his bearings.
"Lecompte was going to read me the Rubaiyat, and Raymond Cline promised me a bunch of orchids; but nobody has shown up." "It's jealousy," he said, lightly. "I suppose so. Of course it was nice of you to compromise me this way it's delicious, in fact but I didn't think it would scare off the others." "You think I have compromised you?" "You know you have, terribly.
General recognition came to him in 1884, when he published his illustrations to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the most sympathetic and beautiful pictorial comment which has ever been given any book of poetry. Since then he has executed much decorative work of a high order, though the mastery in this branch of the art is held by another.
Standing before a case in which was an exquisite book in a queer wrigglesome language, bearing the legend that from this volume Fitzgerald had translated the Rubaiyat, Dr. Mittyford waved his hand and looked for thanks. "Pretty book," said Mr. Wrenn. "And did you note who used it?" "Uh yes." He hastily glanced at the placard. "Mr. Fitzgerald. Say, I think I read some of that Rubaiyat.
But of its philosophical, ethical, and religious influence which has been almost as great as its brilliancy, I should like to say a word, and that word, I confess, one of uncompromising hostility. There are a great many things which might be said against the spirit of the Rubaiyat, and against its prodigious influence.
"I think the Rubaiyát is by far the best," she said gravely, and her querist received the announcement in perfect good faith. It was some weeks afterwards that Theodora, turning over her mail, came upon a marked copy of the Intermountain. "What in the world is this?" she said in astonishment. "I never heard of the paper." She opened it, and then she gasped.
The sterling merits of the Persian original are preserved with striking fidelity in the English version of the poem, which, for the rest, has gone far to prove that the acceptableness among us of Oriental poetry may depend very largely on the skill with which it is transplanted into our language. The translator of the Rubáiyát is Mr. Edward FitzGerald, of Woodbridge in Suffolk. Mr.
There is no past nor future when they fasten upon one's epidermis, and I am willing to wager that Omer Khayyam could never have written the Rubaiyat in the valley of Typee it would have been psychologically impossible. I made the strategic mistake of undressing on the edge of a steep bank where I could dive in but could not climb out.
One was The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the other was a Bible, open at the second chapter of John. He was looking curiously at the decanter when a voice startled him. "Dandelion wine!" it said. "Will you have a glass?" He turned and saw an old gentleman with profuse white hair and beard tottering into the hall. "Glad to see you, Mr. Bleak," said the latter. "I was expecting you."
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