The Fall of the Nan Soung: A Tale of the Mogul Conquest of China, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1846 |
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Page 137 - Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 45 - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate.
Page 166 - I little thought, when first thy rein I slacked upon the banks of Seine, That Highland eagle e'er should feed On thy fleet limbs, my matchless steed ! Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That cost thy life, my gallant grey !
Page 278 - ... she returns with him to his tent. But it sometimes happens that the woman does not wish to marry the person by whom she is pursued, in which case she will not suffer him to overtake her; and we were assured that no instance occurs of a Calmuck girl being thus caught, unless she has a partiality for her pursuer. If she dislikes him, she rides, to use the language of English sportsmen, 'neck or nothing...
Page 319 - College work', and he defined his aim as that of plain historical interpretation, limiting himself to the task of 'determining, in the light of our knowledge of Christian life and thought at the end of the first and beginning of the second century, what the writer seems to have intended his readers to understand by the words which he addressed to them'.
Page 238 - IS THERE any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving-kindness is such. Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
Page 99 - Here are severed lips, Parted with sugar breath : so sweet a bar Should sever such sweet friends. Here in her hairs, The painter plays the spider, and hath woven A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men Faster than gnats in cobwebs : but her eyes — How could he see to do them ? having made one, Methinks it should have power to steal both his, And leave itself unfurnished.
Page 321 - September, we approached that part of the river which, on account of the numerous shipwrecks that have happened there, is held in no small degree of dread by the Chinese. They call it the She-pa-tan, or eighteen cataracts ; which are torrents formed by ledges of rock running across the bed of the river. They have not, however, any thing Very terrific in them, not being one half so dangerous as the fall at London bridge about half tide. This intricate part of the river, where innumerable pointed rocks...
Page 299 - On the strength of this declaration she felt confident, notwithstanding that the city became daily more and more straitened, that it could not be lost, because it seemed a thing impossible that any mortal could have that number of eyes. Inquiring, however, the name of the general who commanded the enemy's troops, and being told it was Chin-san Bay-an, which means a hundred eyes, she was seized with horror at hearing it pronounced, as she felt a conviction that this must be the person who, according...