A Japanese BoyE.B. Sheldon & Company, 1889 - 128 σελίδες A Japanese Boy by Himself is an essay written by Shukichi Shigemi when he was a student attending medical school at Yale University in 1889. It was written in English and published by a company in Connecticut, U.S.A. The description of just a common boy's daily life in a countryside contributed to cross-cultural understanding between the two countries at an early stage after the end of the Japanese isolation policy. His book sold well that he could pay for education with this publication to become a qualified doctor. |
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Σελίδα 44
... reader ; you will find it no easy task . In the stage dances the dancers must dress true to the conceptions of the characters they un- dertake to represent . This necessitates a large wardrobe , though the gorgeous costumes are gen ...
... reader ; you will find it no easy task . In the stage dances the dancers must dress true to the conceptions of the characters they un- dertake to represent . This necessitates a large wardrobe , though the gorgeous costumes are gen ...
Σελίδα 49
... reader that he shaved his head again and joined the priesthood , perfectly content with his diverse worldly experiences . In spite of his fickleness he was an honest fellow and passed for a tolerable humorist among his friends . There ...
... reader that he shaved his head again and joined the priesthood , perfectly content with his diverse worldly experiences . In spite of his fickleness he was an honest fellow and passed for a tolerable humorist among his friends . There ...
Σελίδα 93
... reader , who associates in his mind such a sumptuous board as that of Christmas with the term dinner . In that figurative sense in which we frequently use it , it must properly be applied to the breakfast . I must mention here that in ...
... reader , who associates in his mind such a sumptuous board as that of Christmas with the term dinner . In that figurative sense in which we frequently use it , it must properly be applied to the breakfast . I must mention here that in ...
Σελίδα 111
... reader , indulge my fancy this time ; I won't always ask this . Well , it's a dark night then : as the boats slip out of our sight we can hear the lapping noise that comes of their swaying from side to side caused by the queer Japanese ...
... reader , indulge my fancy this time ; I won't always ask this . Well , it's a dark night then : as the boats slip out of our sight we can hear the lapping noise that comes of their swaying from side to side caused by the queer Japanese ...
Σελίδα 128
... reader . In the story told so far I ought to have , perhaps , prudently suppressed everything personal and brought forward only those experi- ences that the generality of Japanese boys are destined to undergo . Neither have I exhausted ...
... reader . In the story told so far I ought to have , perhaps , prudently suppressed everything personal and brought forward only those experi- ences that the generality of Japanese boys are destined to undergo . Neither have I exhausted ...
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accent action Alliteration ancient Anne Hathaway Antonomasia appears auxiliary Auxiliary Verbs bamboo beautiful boys Cæsura called clause composition conjugation consequence couplets Dactyls dance denotes English Epic example expression father feet figure flowers French future give gods Grammar Greek hand hath heart hence holidays Imabari Indicative Mood Japanese John buried kind kite lady language lanterns Latin latter light look manner marry means metaphors mind modern Mood morning nature night noun past tense periphrasis person Peter loves Mary phrases poem poet poetical Poetry preceding quatrain reader Rhyme rice saké samisen Saxon sentence shrine simple song speak speaker species Spondees stanza street Subjunctive Subjunctive Mood substantive sweet syllables Tanabata temple tence termed thee things thought tion tive to-morrow town Trochee tsuzumi verb verse versification walk words write written young
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Σελίδα 155 - ... unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Σελίδα 83 - Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, 'Surely,' said I, 'man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Σελίδα 142 - Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the rural Virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail That idly waiting flaps with every gale, 400 Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. Contented Toil, and hospitable Care, And kind connubial Tenderness, are there ; And Piety with wishes placed above, And steady Loyalty, and faithful Love.
Σελίδα 212 - The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Σελίδα 6 - I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Σελίδα 111 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Σελίδα 211 - Is now the labour of my thoughts ; 'tis likeliest They had engaged their wandering steps too far ; And envious darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish night, Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars. That nature hung in heaven, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller?
Σελίδα 309 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master and seek for companions.
Σελίδα 61 - But by the grace of God I am what I am : and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain ; but I laboured more abundantly than they all : yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
Σελίδα 110 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...