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Omar Khayyam

noun

Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123).

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"Omar Khayyam" Quotes from Famous Books

... Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one ...

— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam

... thing of gold sufficient only for the heedless purchase of one flaming, brilliant hour of life. That husbanded it might purchase a lifetime of gray hours tinged intermittently with rose or crimson, Carl had dismissed with a cynical laugh, quoting Omar Khayyam. ...

— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple

... in its founder's mind. At this same period, in the early seventies, he was much absorbed in the study of ancient manuscripts, and in writing out and illuminating various books, including a Horace and an Omar Khayyam, which may have led his thoughts away from printing. In any case, the plan of an illustrated Love is Enough, like that of the ...

— The Art and Craft of Printing • William Morris

... willingly acquiesce, remembering that the translations which we treasure as great in literature are in greater or less measure "free." So checking Lady Gregory's translations we find that they represent a fair measure of freedom, as so checking the verses of FitzGerald's "Omar Khayyam" we find in them the utmost measure of freedom, a freedom indeed that, in certain verses, ...

— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt

Words linked to "Omar Khayyam" : poet, astronomer, uranologist, stargazer, mathematician