Hau Kiou Choaan: Or, The Pleasing History, Volume 1Thomas Percy R. and J. Dodsley, 1761 |
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Pagina ii - ... appears in many places to have been first written with a blacklead pencil, and afterwards more correctly over-written with ink, it should seem to have been drawn up under the direction of a Chinese master or tutor. The History is contained in four thin folio books...
Pagina v - That there is a littleness and poverty of genius in almost all the works of taste of the Chinese must be acknowledged by capital judges.... The abjectness of their genius may easily be accounted from that servile submission, and dread of novelty, which inslaves the minds of the Chinese, and while it promotes the peace and quiet of their Empire, dulls their spirit and cramps their imagination".
Pagina ix - ... history. A foreigner will form a truer notion of the genius and spirit of the English, from one page of Fielding, and one or two writers now alive, than from whole volumes of Present States of England, or French Letters concerning the English Nation.
Pagina i - The following translation was found in manuscript, among the papers of a gentleman who had large concerns in the East India Company, and occasionally resided much at Canton. It is believed by his relations, that he had bestowed considerable attention on the Chinese language, and that this translation (or at least part of it) was undertaken by him as a kind of exercise while he was studying it: the many interlineations...
Pagina vi - ... and in the introductory remarks, to which reference has already been made, he writes : It ought, however, to be observed in favour of the Chinese, that if they do not take such bold and daring flights as some of the other Eastern nations, neither do they run into such extravagant absurdities. They pay a greater regard to truth and nature in their fictitious narratives than any other of the Asiatics.f This is the very point that Goldsmith's Lien Chi Altangi makes in Letter 33 (first published...
Pagina v - ... almost all the works of taste of the Chinese, may be acknowledged by capable judges. This at • Percy afterwards made a new translation of this from the French of Du Halde, for his Miscellaneous Pieces Relating to the Chinese (1762). least is evident in their writings ; and in a narrative like the following, would make a writer creep along through a minute relation of trifling particulars, without daring to omit the most inconsiderable. The abjectness of their genius may easily be accounted...
Pagina viii - ... in play, and every part of him in motion: than there is between a people methodically described in a formal account, and painted out in the lively narrative of some domestic history.
Pagina vi - It contains an unity of de/ign or fable, and the incidents all tend to one end, in a regular natural manner, •with little interruption or incoherence. After all, the Editor is not concerned about the judgment that will be pa/Jed on this performance, and neither attempts to conceal nor extenuate its faults.
Pagina 14 - Percy was led by the word to make researches and conclude in the footnote that the -Chinese 'believe in tutelar spirits'. Another 'angel' appears on p. 41, and Percy had to make another explanatory note. The mistake on p. 37 is more significant : 'At this [the arrival of Imperial despatch] he greatly rejoiced, and making an offering of fire, prayed for the Emperor'. Percy noted: 'The Editor could meet with no account of this custom'.