A Tragedy in Stone: And Other PapersJohn Lane, 1913 - 343 páginas |
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... foreign and un- homelike appearance to the garden , that they are out of place , fantastic , and what not beside ! Are not the Briar Rose , the Holly , the Gorse , the Hazel , and many others , far more beautiful than all the plants ...
... foreign and un- homelike appearance to the garden , that they are out of place , fantastic , and what not beside ! Are not the Briar Rose , the Holly , the Gorse , the Hazel , and many others , far more beautiful than all the plants ...
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... itself on having purer methods than those that are followed by the general . To these purists it is a sin that we should introduce foreign 66 trees into our pleasaunces . England for the English 94 APOLOGIA PRO HORTO MEO.
... itself on having purer methods than those that are followed by the general . To these purists it is a sin that we should introduce foreign 66 trees into our pleasaunces . England for the English 94 APOLOGIA PRO HORTO MEO.
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... foreign words are poured in upon us , it looks as if they were designed not to assist the natives , but to conquer them . " In rightly using , then , the great gifts which we have received from beyond the seas , we should , to borrow ...
... foreign words are poured in upon us , it looks as if they were designed not to assist the natives , but to conquer them . " In rightly using , then , the great gifts which we have received from beyond the seas , we should , to borrow ...
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... foreign origin stamped on every feature , differing in that from many an im- postor , too often undetected , that raises its bragging head with as much effrontery as if it could trace an English pedigree back beyond the Crusades . The ...
... foreign origin stamped on every feature , differing in that from many an im- postor , too often undetected , that raises its bragging head with as much effrontery as if it could trace an English pedigree back beyond the Crusades . The ...
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... . How we compass in a day a distance over which at the beginning of the nine- teenth century it took three weeks or more to travel . How the goods and produce of foreign countries , tea , sugar , coffee , once the 144 A SECOND ADDRESS.
... . How we compass in a day a distance over which at the beginning of the nine- teenth century it took three weeks or more to travel . How the goods and produce of foreign countries , tea , sugar , coffee , once the 144 A SECOND ADDRESS.
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A Tragedy in Stone: And Other Papers Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale Vista completa - 1912 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adams Anne Boleyn armoury artist bamboo beautiful Benzaiten brother Buddha Buddhist called Captain carried castle century charm chief China Chinese CHIPPING CAMPDEN colours Court cryptomeria Daimyos death earth East Emperor English eyes famous father favour feudal system foreign garden genius Hachiman Hakoné hand head Henry Henry III Hirado Hôjô honour horse Imagination invention Iyémitsu Iyéyasu Japanese Kamakura King Kugyô Kyoto ladies land Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci lived look Lord matter Mikado Moriyoshi Mount Fuji mountains never noble Odawara Old Japan palace paper perhaps plants poetry priest Prince provinces Queen remained river sacred Samarkand Samurai Sanétomo Saris Satsuma seems sent ship Shiraki Shogun shrine spirit stone story Sukétsuné sword Taiko temple things to-day took Tower of London trees walls wonder word Yedo Yoritomo
Pasajes populares
Página 7 - the city of London hath in the east a very great and most strong Palatine Tower, whose turrets and walls do rise from a deep foundation, the mortar thereof being tempered with the blood of beasts.
Página 211 - Adams was : he having been in such favour with two emperors of Japan as never was any Christian in these parts of the world, and might freely have entered and had speech with the emperors when many Japan kings stood without and could not be permitted.
Página 168 - Rather than allow this, as we are not the equals of foreigners in the mechanical arts, let us have intercourse with foreign countries, learn their drill and tactics, and when we have made the nation as united as one family, we shall be able to go abroad and give lands in foreign countries to those who have distinguished themselves in battle...
Página 231 - ... brave, courteous, light-hearted, pleasure-loving people, sentimental rather than passionate, witty and humorous, of nimble apprehension, but not profound ; ingenious and inventive, but hardly capable of high intellectual achievement; of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge ; with a turn for neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity.
Página 201 - Now being in such grace and favour, by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
Página 99 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 7 - Conqueror, builded the Tower of London, to wit, the great white and square tower there, about the year of Christ 1078, appointing Gundulph, then Bishop of Rochester, to be principal surveyor and overseer of that work, who was for that time lodged in the house of Edmere, a burgess of London.
Página 98 - Here he planted the vines and the quincunx which his verses mention; and being under the necessity of making a subterraneous passage to a garden on the other side of the road, he adorned it with fossile bodies, and dignified it with the title of a grotto; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded.
Página 108 - The stalks are cut near the ground, and then sorted into parcels according to the age, and tied up in small bundles. The younger the bamboo, the better is the quality of the paper which is made from it. The bundles are thrown into a reservoir of mud and water, and buried in the ooze for about a fortnight to soften them. They are then taken out, cut into pieces of a proper length, and put into mortars with a little water, to...
Página 20 - Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and with imperishable renown ; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.