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Strana iii - Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Strana 344 - I said) of free-stone, without any filling in the inward part with trumpery, as they reported vnto me. The stones are great, of an excellent quarry, and are cut so exactly to fit the place where they are laid, that no morter is used, but onely earth cast betweene to fill vp voyd creuises if any be.
Strana 30 - ... him. There thus results a sort of double entity or double consciousness. The person possessed hears and understands everything that the fox inside says or thinks; and the two often...
Strana 204 - ... awesome majesty as the sunset I witnessed that evening from the topmost cubic foot of Fuji. A few moments only the glory lasted. Then the sun sank into the cloudland ocean, the snowy billows turned leaden gray, and darkness immediately began to fall. As the last spark of the orb of day disappeared in the foaming breakers there was a rush of wind across the crater, due to the instant change in temperature, and in a moment the mountain-top was in a tumult. The great abyss became a cauldron of boiling...
Strana 33 - ... a sort of double entity or double consciousness. The person possessed hears and understands everything that the fox inside says or thinks, and the two often engage in a loud and violent dispute, the fox speaking in a voice altogether different from that which is natural to the individual. The only difference between the cases of possession mentioned in the Bible and those observed in Japan is that here it is almost exclusively women that are attacked — mostly women of the lower classes.
Strana 204 - ... sea was so real that I had to sit, for fear of falling with dizziness. When the sun sank to the level of the surging vapors, flooding their waves and hollows with ever-changing contrasts of light and shade, the scene was of indescribable beauty. Never in any part of the world have I seen a spectacle so replete with awesome majesty as the sunset I witnessed that evening from the topmost cubic foot of Fuji.
Strana 47 - ... take increasing interest, there is the one principle of extreme simplicity and absolute fidelity to nature. The brilliant metals, gold and silver, are used most sparingly, only for enrichment, and to heighten the general effect ; these precious metals are never allowed to assert themselves unduly, and are only employed where their presence will serve some definite end in relation to the design as a whole. A Japanese proverb asserts that " He who works in gold puts his brains into the melting-pot...
Strana 75 - ... between hills covered with vegetation ; and myriads of fireflies dart from either bank, to meet and cling above the water. At moments they so swarm together as to form what appears to the eye like a luminous cloud, or like a great ball of sparks. The cloud soon scatters, or the ball drops and breaks upon the surface of the current, and the fallen fireflies drift glittering away ; but another swarm quickly collects in the same locality.
Strana 29 - Kyo-yo (Hsiiyu), a hero of early Chinese legend, who, having rejected the Emperor Yao's proposal to resign the throne to him, is represented washing his ear at a waterfall to get rid of the pollution caused by the ventilation of so preposterous an idea ; the owner of the cow opposite is supposed to have quarrelled with him for thus defiling the stream, at which he was watering his beast.
Strana 56 - The art of cloisonn6 enamelling first became known in Japan some three hundred years ago; but it has only been brought to perfection within the last quarter of a century.