 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
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 376 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...off on the other side of the same strange stream! t Farther on — if far or near can be predicated of their world — see horses, trees, pagodas, dancing... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pàgines
...lady, or another — for likeness is identity on tea-cups — is stepping 25 26 THE PERSONAL ESSAY into a little fairy boat, moored on the hither side...Farther on — if far or near can be predicated of thenworld — see horses, trees, pagodas, dancing the hays.* Here — a cow and rabbit couchant, and... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 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...furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream l) Farther on — if far or near can be predicated of their world — see horses, trees, pagodas, dancing... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 524 pàgines
...respect! And here the same lady, or another—for likeness is identity on tea-cups—is stepping into 196 a little fairy boat, moored on the hither side of...must infallibly land her in the midst of a flowery mead—a furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream! Farther on—if far or near can... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pàgines
...to set off respect! And here the same lady, or another—for likeness is identity on tea-cups—is efface Those records dear of transports past, Thy~Trriage~at...Hast pmhrWe^Ah!_ little thought^wejtwas our last! mead—a furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream! Farther on—if far or near can... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1926 - 372 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...with a dainty mincing foot, which, in a right angle (as angles go in our world) must infallibly land her in the midst of a flowery mead, a furlong off... | |
 | Carl Henry Grabo - 1927 - 544 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...furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream ! 129 Farther on — if far or near can be predicated of their world — see horses, trees, pagodas,... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 182 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...off on the other side of the same strange stream! (2: 248) The sandaled foot with a speck of solid blue beneath, "up in the air" yet "on terra firma... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 182 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 hither...must infallibly land her in the midst of a flowery mead—a furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream! (2: 248) The sandaled foot with... | |
 | Patricia Ondek Laurence - 2003 - 548 pàgines
...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 on the...Farther on — if far or near can be predicated of this world — wee horses, trees, pagodas.6 Figures float in a world "uncircumscribed" by our rules... | |
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