 | 1916 - 792 pagina’s
...his means, transported into Asiatic scenes. I know not whether others share in my feelings on this pelled stern authority to submit to elegance, and gave a domination, vanquisher of laws, to be sub and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. The causes of my horror lie... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pagina’s
...great minds rise above them — Washington Irving. KNOW not whether others share in my feelings on this point; but I have often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. The causes of my horror lie... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pagina’s
...dominion. — John Ruskin . «•» .-•*• Page 103 KNOW not whether others share in my feelings on this point; but I have often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. The causes of my horror lie... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1925 - 1118 pagina’s
...coincidence occurs in D» Quincey: I know not whether others share in my feelings on this point ; but 1 have often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, 1 should go mad. — Confessions of an English... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pagina’s
...his means, transported into Asiatic scenes. I know not whether others share in my feelings on this d listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. II " Yet life," y and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. The causes of my horror lie... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pagina’s
...fantasies of his narcotic dreams. May 1818. — I know not whether others share in my feelings on this point; but I have often thought that if I were compelled to forego P'.ngland, and to live in China, among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad.... | |
 | Carl Henry Grabo - 1927 - 544 pagina’s
...his means, transported into Asiatic scenes. I know not whether others share in my feelings on this point; but I have often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. The causes of my horror lie... | |
 | Ania Loomba, Professor of English Ania Loomba - 1998 - 308 pagina’s
...have been transported into Asiatic scenery.... I have often thought that, if I were compelled to forgo England, and to live in China, among Chinese manners...and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad.... In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of Southern Asia, I am terrified by the... | |
 | 1998 - 452 pagina’s
...forego England, and to live in China, and I wrote De Quincey, 'but I have often thought that if I were among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad.' I read this sentence the other day, for the first time, and as I came to the last clause I was struck... | |
 | Janet Farrell Brodie, Marc Redfield - 2002 - 248 pagina’s
...from the inevitability of Chinese aggression. I know not whether others share in my feelings on this point; but I have often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. DE QUINCEY, Confessions It... | |
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I know not whether others share in my feelings on this point; but I have often thought that if I were compelled to forego England, and to live in China, and among Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. 
