Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with ChinaS. Low, Marston, 1900 - 666 sivua |
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Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected With China ... James Dyer Ball Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2018 |
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Sivu 476 - O'er Ganges and o'er Himalay, Bird-like I fly, and flying sing, To flowery kingdoms of Cathay, And bird-like poise on balanced wing Above the town of King-te-tching, A burning town, or seeming so, — Three thousand furnaces that glow Incessantly, and fill the air With smoke uprising, gyre on gyre, And painted by the lurid glare, Of jets and flashes of red fire.
Sivu 233 - While a man's father is alive, look at the bent of his will; when his father is dead, look at his conduct. If for three years he does not alter from the way of his father, he may be called filial.
Sivu 326 - ... we scarcely know any European code that is at once so copious and so consistent, or that is nearly so free from intricacy, bigotry, and fiction.
Sivu 101 - Kin-sai, a name that signifies "the celestial city," and which it merits from its preeminence to all others in the world, in point of grandeur and beauty, as well as from its abundant delights, which might lead an inhabitant to imagine himself in paradise.
Sivu 461 - The Poet. You ask what my soul does away in the sky; I Inwardly smile but I cannot reply. Like the peach-blossom carried away by the stream, I soar to a world of which you cannot dream.
Sivu 178 - Another Chinese authority informs us that • the dragon becomes at will reduced to the size of a silkworm, or swollen till it fills the space of Heaven and Earth. It desires to mount — and it rises...
Sivu 273 - His head became mountains, his breath wind and clouds, and his voice thunder, his limbs were changed into the four poles, his veins into rivers, his sinews into the undulations of the earth's surface, and his flesh into fields, his beard was turned into stars, his skin and hair into herbs and trees! and his teeth, bones and marrow into metals, rocks and precious stones ; his dropping sweat increased to rain...
Sivu 205 - Try not the Pass!' the old man said: 'Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide!' And loud that clarion voice replied. Excelsior! 'O stay,' the maiden said, 'and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!
Sivu 326 - The most remarkable thing in this code is its great reasonableness, clearness, and consistency ; the business-like brevity and directness of the various provisions, and the plainness and moderation of the language in which they are expressed.
Sivu 228 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.