 Here is a young and courtly Mandarin, handing tea to a lady from a salver, two miles off. See how distance seems to set off respect ! And here the same lady, or another, (for likeness is identity on teacups,) is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored...  The prose works of Charles Lamb - Pàgina 214per Charles Lamb - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pàgines
...— for likeness is identity on tea-cups—is stepping into a little fairy-boat, moored on the other side of this calm garden river, with a dainty mincing...furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream I Farther on — if far or near can be predicated of their world — see horses, trees, pagodas, dancing... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 472 pàgines
...to set off respect 1 And here the same lady, or another — for likeness is identity on tea-cups — is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on the...mincing foot, which in a right angle of incidence (as augles go in our world) must infallibly land her in the midst of a flowery mead — a furlong off on... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1895 - 360 pàgines
...to set off respect ! And here the same lady, or another — for likeness is identity on teacups — is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on the...strange stream ! Farther on — if far or near can be predicted of their world — see horses, trees, pagodas, dancing the hays.1 1 The hays was an old English... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1895 - 530 pàgines
...to set off respect! And here the same lady, or another—for likeness is identity on teacups •— is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on the...strange stream! Farther on — if far or near can be predicted of their world — see horses, trees, pagodas, dancing the hays. 1 Here — a cow and rabbit... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pàgines
...And here the same lady, or 5 another — for likeness is identity on teacups — is stepping into a fairy boat, moored on the hither side of this calm...infallibly land her in the midst of a flowery mead 10 — a furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream ! Farther on — if far or near can... | |
 | 1903 - 118 pàgines
...to set off respect ! And here the same lady, or another — for likeness is identity on tea-cups — is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on the...calm garden river, with a dainty, mincing foot, which is in a right angle of incidence (as angles go in our world) that must infallibly land her in the midst... | |
 | Arthur Hayden - 1904 - 324 pàgines
...to set off respect. And here the same lady, or another — for likeness is identity on teacups — is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on the...furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream ! " And now, having brought you thus far, reader, will you not journey with us and learn something... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 328 pàgines
...little fairy boat, moored on the hither side of this calm garden river, with a dainty mincing foot, 10 which in a right angle of incidence (as angles go...world) must infallibly land her in the midst of a flowerymead — a furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream ! I could not help remarking... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 328 pàgines
...set off respect ! And here the same lady, or another ; — for likeness is identity on teacups — is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on the...this calm garden river, with a dainty mincing foot, 10 which in a right angle of incidence (as angles go in our world) must infallibly land her in the... | |
 | Arthur Hayden - 1904 - 324 pàgines
...to set off respect. And here the same lady, or another — for likeness is identity on teacups — is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on the hither side of this calm garden river, witli a dainty, mincing foot, which, in a right angle of incidence (as angles go in our world), must... | |
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