Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volumes 51-53Kelly & Walsh., 1920 Catalogue of the Library of the Society in vol. 26, 30. |
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Ai-Lao Amur ancient apricot bamboo beautiful British called Ch'i China Chinese Chinese art Chinese poetry Chou colour Concubine Confucian Confucius cultivated destiny district dragon Duke dynasty earth Emperor Empire exogamy flowers Foochow fruits Golden Bough gourd grains green Han dynasty Harbin Heaven ibid Imperial Jour kaoliang King Kirin Kuei Kung Lao Tzu Lao Tzu says Legge m.m. in breadth m.m. in length melon Miao Ming Mohammed mountain rice nature North Manchuria oblong officer Palace Peking person Petersburg piculs planted PLATE plum poppy porcelain Prophet province replied river Road round Royal Asiatic Society Ruler Russian Maritime Province seen Shan Shanghai SKVORTZOW Society spirit stones T'ai Taoist taro things Tien tion trees Ts'u Tzŭ Ultimate Principle variety vegetable villages virtue Wang Wang Ch'ung wares words yellow
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Página 42 - But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Página 41 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after a TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 'Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There!
Página 42 - Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing. XXX What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!
Página 113 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Página 42 - Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
Página 42 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Página 41 - Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and Future Fears: To-morrow.'— Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
Página 14 - Let our artists rather be those who are gifted to discern the true nature of the beautiful and graceful ; then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds, and receive the good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, shall flow into the eye and ear, like a health-giving breeze from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul from earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason.
Página 145 - An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole ; as — spirit, matter ; man, woman ; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.