A Tragedy in Stone: And Other PapersJohn Lane, 1913 - 343 ページ |
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... course of travels through many countries , and have en- deavoured to apply them as fittingly as I could to the surroundings of an English country home . Hence the reproduction of my chapter on that subject . My thanks are due to Mr. Guy ...
... course of travels through many countries , and have en- deavoured to apply them as fittingly as I could to the surroundings of an English country home . Hence the reproduction of my chapter on that subject . My thanks are due to Mr. Guy ...
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... keep watch over them while the citizens were coming and going , for that no one should guard the gates of the Tower save only such persons as they might appoint . The King , as a matter of course , granted 16 A TRAGEDY IN STONE.
... keep watch over them while the citizens were coming and going , for that no one should guard the gates of the Tower save only such persons as they might appoint . The King , as a matter of course , granted 16 A TRAGEDY IN STONE.
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... course , granted this re- quest , and for the nonce the citizen guards , newly shaved and sprucely clad in their best , took possession of the gates . There is one institution which dates from Henry's time to which we may allude . In ...
... course , granted this re- quest , and for the nonce the citizen guards , newly shaved and sprucely clad in their best , took possession of the gates . There is one institution which dates from Henry's time to which we may allude . In ...
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... Sir John Taylor in the course of certain investigations in the lower part of the Tower found the lost well , and saved the tearful Bishop's reputation . The armoury at the Tower is such a pleasure to 37 A TRAGEDY IN STONE.
... Sir John Taylor in the course of certain investigations in the lower part of the Tower found the lost well , and saved the tearful Bishop's reputation . The armoury at the Tower is such a pleasure to 37 A TRAGEDY IN STONE.
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... course , desirable that the address should have some bearing , however remote , upon the aims of the Society . In my case , perhaps , for obvious reasons , the more re- mote the better . You may imagine , then , how puzzled I was to ...
... course , desirable that the address should have some bearing , however remote , upon the aims of the Society . In my case , perhaps , for obvious reasons , the more re- mote the better . You may imagine , then , how puzzled I was to ...
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Adams Anne Boleyn armoury artist bamboo beautiful Benzaiten brother Buddha Buddhist called Captain carried castle century charm chief China Chinese colours Court cryptomeria Daimyos death earth East Emperor English eyes famous father favour feudal system foreign garden genius Hakoné hand head Henry Henry VIII Hirado Hôjô honour horse Imagination invention Iyémitsu Iyéyasu Japanese Kamakura King Kugyô Kyōto ladies land Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci lived look Lord matter Mikado Moriyoshi Mount Fuji mountains never noble Odawara Old Japan painted palace paper perhaps plants poetry priest Prince provinces Queen remained river Rōnin sacred Samarkand Samurai Sanétomo Saris Satsuma seems sent ship Shiraki Shogun shrine spirit stone story Sukétsuné sword Taiko temple things to-day took Tower of London trees walls wonder words Yedo Yoritomo
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7 ページ - the city of London hath in the east a very great and most strong Palatine Tower, whose turrets and walls do rise from a deep foundation, the mortar thereof being tempered with the blood of beasts.
211 ページ - Adams was : he having been in such favour with two emperors of Japan as never was any Christian in these parts of the world, and might freely have entered and had speech with the emperors when many Japan kings stood without and could not be permitted.
168 ページ - Rather than allow this, as we are not the equals of foreigners in the mechanical arts, let us have intercourse with foreign countries, learn their drill and tactics, and when we have made the nation as united as one family, we shall be able to go abroad and give lands in foreign countries to those who have distinguished themselves in battle...
231 ページ - ... brave, courteous, light-hearted, pleasure-loving people, sentimental rather than passionate, witty and humorous, of nimble apprehension, but not profound ; ingenious and inventive, but hardly capable of high intellectual achievement; of receptive minds endowed with a voracious appetite for knowledge ; with a turn for neatness and elegance of expression, but seldom or never rising to sublimity.
201 ページ - Now being in such grace and favour, by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
99 ページ - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
7 ページ - Conqueror, builded the Tower of London, to wit, the great white and square tower there, about the year of Christ 1078, appointing Gundulph, then Bishop of Rochester, to be principal surveyor and overseer of that work, who was for that time lodged in the house of Edmere, a burgess of London.
98 ページ - Here he planted the vines and the quincunx which his verses mention; and being under the necessity of making a subterraneous passage to a garden on the other side of the road, he adorned it with fossile bodies, and dignified it with the title of a grotto; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded.
108 ページ - The stalks are cut near the ground, and then sorted into parcels according to the age, and tied up in small bundles. The younger the bamboo, the better is the quality of the paper which is made from it. The bundles are thrown into a reservoir of mud and water, and buried in the ooze for about a fortnight to soften them. They are then taken out, cut into pieces of a proper length, and put into mortars with a little water, to...
20 ページ - Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and with imperishable renown ; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.