London Through Chinese Eyes: Or, My Seven and a Half Years in London |
Other editions - View all
London Through Chinese Eyes: Or My Seven and a Half Years in London (Classic ... Min-Ch'ien T. Z. Tyau No preview available - 2015 |
London Through Chinese Eyes: Or My Seven and a Half Years in London (Classic ... Min-Ch'ien T. Z. Tyau No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
admire afternoon tea alimony appear asked atmosphere Bobby British CHAPTER China Chinese marriage chopsticks cinema civil clubs Cockney common course court crowd custom dinner Distinguished Conduct Medal divorce East England English Englishman example exhibition fact feelings foreign former freedom Government hand honour House Hu-t'ung human husband interesting JOHN NEWEll Jordan King labour lady latter League of Nations live London London County Council look marriage married matrimony ment metropolis Military Crosses moral Moreover music hall nation never Nevertheless newsboy official one's opium ordinary parents party Peking perhaps person play police political poor race regards respect restaurant seems social society stage stranger Street stump orators suffragettes sure sweet theatre things tion to-day true universities weather West Western whereas wife woman women wonder
Popular passages
Page 329 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 53 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 71 - The tumult and the shouting dies; The Captains and the Kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart.
Page 22 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yond...
Page 71 - The tumult and the shouting dies — The captains and the kings depart — Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet...
Page 71 - The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart: Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, — An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, — lest we forget!
Page 80 - ... made them worthy of such kin. Some, indeed, there were, who thought to show the soundness of their judgment by affirming that all the beauty and dignity of the natural world existed only in the poet's fancy. Let such men speak for themselves, who undoubtedly appear to have been spawned forth by Nature with a contemptuous bitterness, she having plastered them up out of her refuse stuff, after all the swine were made. As respects all things else, the poet's ideal was the truest truth.
Page 322 - Was there love once ? I have forgotten her. Was there grief once? grief yet is mine. O loved, living, dying, heroic soldier, All, all, my joy, my grief, my love, are thine 1 The ^Assault THE beating of the guns grows louder.
Page 237 - An action against a trade union, whether of workmen or masters, or against any members or officials thereof on behalf of themselves and all other members of the trade union in respect of any tortious act alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of the trade union, shall not be entertained by any court.
Page 53 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he mauna fa' that! For a