Hau Kiou Choaan: Or, The Pleasing History, Volym 4

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Thomas Percy
R. and J. Dodsley, 1761

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Sida 234 - ... Beset with tufts of verdant canes, how beautifully luxuriant! So is our prince adorned with virtues. He is like one, that carveth and smootheth ivory. He is like one that cutteth and polisheth diamonds. O how sublime, yet profound [is he]! O how resolute yet cautious! How renowned and respectable! We have a prince...
Sida 233 - Behold that bay, which is formed by the winding of the river Ki, Beset with tufts of verdant canes, how beautifully luxuriant! So is our prince adorned with virtues. He is like one, that carveth and smootheth ivory. He is like one that cutteth and polisheth diamonds.
Sida 215 - Chinese author, who, inveighing against such as neglect their studies, adds, ' these persons are most at a loss at the conclusion of a banquet. The plate and dice go round, that the number of little verses which every one ought to pronounce, may be determined by chance ; when it comes to their turn they appear quite stupid.
Sida 211 - Soft harbinger of fpring1 what glowing rays, What colours with thy modeft charms may vie ? No filk-worm decks thy fiiade; nor could fupply The velvet down thy fhining leaf difplays.
Sida 142 - In the beginning when you hardly knew lieh-u, you took him in. without regarding the murmurs and reproaches of the world-, afterwards when you were commanded by your father to marry him, why did you continue in...
Sida 215 - Thefe perfons are moft at a lofs, when a banquet is almoft over. The plate and dice go round that the number of little verfes, which every one ought to pronounce \Fr.
Sida 213 - They tell us alfo that they have another kind of poetry without rhyme, which confifts in the antithefis or oppofition of the thoughts; infomuch that if the firft thought...
Sida 128 - ... some future occasion, gentlemen, when he himself is in danger, I shall speak at more length of the injuries he has committed. I now entreat you not to abandon me to my enemies, nor to involve me in calamities too hard to be borne. Already have I had my full measure of distress. In my early infancy I was left an orphan by the death of my mother and the banishment of my father. Before I had attained four years of age, I was in danger of being cruelly murdered. When a boy I was expelled from the...
Sida 178 - This machine is compofed of two pieces of wood hollowed out in the middle, which, when put together, leave fufficient room for the neck. Thefe are laid upon the moulders of the criminal, and joined together in fuch a manner that he can neither fee his feet nor put his hands to his mouth ; fo that he is incapable of eatingwithout the afliflance of another.
Sida 110 - Cbintfe are fuch fubtle and exquifite cheats, that were money to pafs among them by tale, as in other countries, it would give birth to continual adulterations. For the...

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