THE GOODLY FRAME THE EARTH STRAY IMPRESSIONS OF SCENES, INCIDENTS AND PERSONS IN A JOURNAL TOUCHING JAPAN, CHINA, EGYPT, PALESTINE AND GREECE1900 |
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æsthetic Allah American architecture beautiful Bedouin blood Brahman breath Buddha Buddhist carved centuries charm China Chinese color colossal Confucius contrast cryptomerias Delhi delight desert devout dream earth Egypt Egyptian exquisite eyes faith feel fifty finite flowers Forty-Seven Ronins gardens gilt top glory gold grace hand head heart heaven Himalayas Hindu historical hour human hundred immense impression India infinite Japan Japanese Jeypore jinrikisha Karnak land living look marble mighty miles millions mind Mohammedan mosques mountains naked Nana Sahib nature never Nijo Palace Nile Nirvana numbers once one's Oriental passion Phidias prosaic race realm religion river round ruins sacred sampans sand Saracenic scene seemed sense Shah Jehan shining sight smile soul spirit stone story stretch stupendous sublime superb swarm symbol temple thing thou thought thousand tion Titan to-day tomb trees tropical vast vines walls whole woman women Yokohama
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Page 213 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Page 183 - One army of the living God, To his command we bow ; Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now.
Page 334 - She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks : Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her : All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, They are become her enemies.
Page 82 - Dr Franklin then arose, and with his usual dignified simplicity, said, ''George Washington — the Joshua, who commanded the sun and moon to stand still ; and they obeyed him.
Page 279 - I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page 225 - Said Jesus, on whom be peace, 'The world is a bridge, pass over it, but build no house there. He who hopeth for an hour may hope for eternity ; the world is but an hour, spend it in devotion: the rest is worth nothing.
Page 282 - Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Page 22 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Page 201 - ... beautifully illustrated in the life of its founder. Indeed, in original Buddhism, pessimism served but as the negative to a positive, but as the vanishing point of the finite for entrance on non-finite blessedness. It was the Oriental solution of the paradox of losing the life to find it, of the paradox of St. Paul, " poor, yet making many rich, having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 194 - Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.