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  • The Times critique of UN failures reads like an extended passage from the "Rubaiyat"; great reading, but mostly hot air.

    Running-Amok with John Bolton 2006

  • He had read the "Rubaiyat," and it made a great impression on him.

    The Plastic Age Percy Marks 1923

  • I tried through many channels to secure a manuscript of the "Rubaiyat," but all I succeeded in obtaining was a lithograph copy with no place or date of publication; merely the remark that it had been printed during the cold months.

    War in the Garden of Eden Kermit Roosevelt 1916

  • He wrote the most remarkable poem of the last forty years, one that is to be classed only with Tennyson's "In Memoriam" and the "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • -- [The 'Rubaiyat' had made its first appearance, in Hartford, a little before in a column of extracts published in the Courant.]

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • -- [The 'Rubaiyat' had made its first appearance, in Hartford, a little before in a column of extracts published in the Courant.]

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Still, it seems to me beyond question that his version of the 'Rubaiyat' is an utterance of his soul's deepest doubts, and that hereafter it will come to be recognised as the highest expression of Agnosticism: --

    Two Suffolk Friends Francis Hindes Groome 1876

  • Try also "Rubaiyat" which was a double CD of covers of famous Elektra artists by current WEA artistes.

    Word Magazine - Comments 2010

  • FitzGerald, half author of the "Rubaiyat," sighed to read more lives of obscure persons, and that Arthur Christopher Benson, from his "College

    If You Don't Write Fiction Charles Phelps Cushing

  • In 1857 Borrow came to see him and had the loan of the "Rubaiyat" in manuscript, and Fitzgerald showed his readiness to see more of the "Great

    George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897

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