Hau Kiou Choaan: Or, The Pleasing History, Volume 4Thomas Percy R. and J. Dodsley, 1761 - Chinese poetry |
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accufation affair afterwards againſt alfo alſo anſwer bride caufe ceremony Che-bien China Chineſe Chinese language CHINESE POETRY Chou-thay-kien chung-u compofed confent confifts Confucius court darine daugh daughter defiring difpatched diſturbance Du Halde ELOGIUM Emperor Eunuch Chou faid faid the Eunuch fame father fatisfied favour fecond feems felf felves fent fervant ferve fhall fhew fhould finiſhed firft firſt fome foon fubject fuch fula fuperior greateſt Halde hath Hift himſelf honour houfe houſe huſband illneſs KIOU Kwo-fbo-fu Kwo-kbé-tzu lefs Lordship Majefty Majefty's Mandarine Tieb marriage married moſt muſt myſelf neceffary niece notwithſtanding obferved occafion Odes perfon perly pleaſed pleaſure Poefy Poetry Portugueſe prefent racters reaſon refpect replied ſaid Semedo ſhe ſhould Shuey Shuey-keu-yé Shuey-ping-fin ſpeak ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe Tieb-chung-u Tieb-ying tranflation Tribunal of Rites verfes verfion verſes virtue Wey-phey whofe whoſe wife young lady young Mandarine yourſelf
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...