"Rubaiyat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Modest" Club My advice is not to raise the flag Operas Optimist Pessimist Pretty soon we shall have been dead a hundred years Religion Resenting, even when most amused by it, extravagance and burles Rubaiyat Style that is not a style at all but the very absence of it Symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax Teaspoonful of brains They fought, that a mother might own her child Under dog in the fight Well, it ...
— Widger's Quotations from Albert Bigelow Paine on Mark Twain • David Widger
... Tassy writes back by return of post to ask 'Where I got my Copy of Nicolas? He had not been able to get one in all Paris!' So I wrote to Quaritch: who told me the Book was to be had of Maisonneuve, or any Oriental Bookseller in Paris; but that probably the Shopman did not understand, when 'Les Rubaiyat d'Omar, etc.,' were asked for, that it meant 'Les Quatrains, etc.' This (which I doubt not is the solution of the Mystery) I wrote to Garcin: at the same time offering one of my two Copies. By return of Post comes a frank acceptance of one of the Copies; ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes - Vol. II • Edward FitzGerald |
