 | Juyi Bai - 1918 - 192 pagina’s
...reputation Is made out often thousand corpses. ON THE BIRTH OF HIS SON By Su Tung-p'o (AD 1036-1101) FAMILIES, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent....crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister. THE PEDLAR OF SPELLS By Lu Yu (AD 1125-1209) AN old man selling charms in a cranny of the town wall.... | |
 | 1919 - 258 pagina’s
...thousand corpses. 1 The necessaries of life. ON THE BIRTH OF HIS SON By Su Tung-p'o [AD 1036-1101] FAMILIES, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent....crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister. THE PEDLAR OF SPELLS By Lu Yu [AD 1125-1209] AN old man selling charms in a cranny of the town wall.... | |
 | Arthur Hayden - 1919 - 474 pagina’s
...whole life. •s ~ E § OS 1 'J. | c <^ O 1 o O 1 2 JZ U) Only hope the child will prove Incapable and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Mandarin. This is the philosophic satire on state nationalization. But the representatives of labour... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1920 - 356 pagina’s
...of His Son, comes into line with the ultra-moderns in his irony : Families, when a child is born j. Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence,...crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister. For the pleasure of unearthing so rare a gem as this it would be worth while wading through ten thousand... | |
 | George McKinnon Wrong - 1921 - 200 pagina’s
...Su T'ang Pu, an ancient Chinese poet, expressed it in his bitter reflection on the birth of a son: "Families when a child is born want it to be intelligent;...intelligence, having wrecked my whole life, only hope the boy may prove ignorant and stupid ; then he will crown a tranquil life by becoming a Cabinet minister."... | |
 | Lascelles Abercrombie - 1924 - 236 pagina’s
...of men and affairs as placidly as an old Chinese poet did, when he heard of the birth of his son ? Families, when a child is born, Want it to be intelligent....he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.1 1 From Arthur Waley 's A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems. Recent English verse can show... | |
 | Lascelles Abercrombie - 1926 - 350 pagina’s
...when he heard of the birth of his son? Families, when a child is born, Want it to be intelligent. 71, through intelligence Having wrecked my whole life,...he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.1 Beauty had little to do with the inspiration there. More will have to be said about this... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1928 - 1390 pagina’s
...And silent now Was the cicada's voice. (Arthur Waley) Su Tung-p'o 1036-1101 ON THE BIRTH OF HIS SON FAMILIES, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent....whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and slupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minisler. (Arthur Walcy) Lui Qhi A... | |
 | Jerome B. Grieder - 1983 - 420 pagina’s
...useful to bear in mind a poem written by this same Su Tung-p'o on the occasion of his son's birth: Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent....he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.3 To Voltaire, writing half a century later, the fact that the Chinese had been spared "the... | |
 | Anne Behnke Kinney - 1995 - 380 pagina’s
...to he intelligent. I, through intelligence, Havmg wrecked my whole life, Only hope the bahy 1t'ill prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.32 There is only one case I am aware of in the Shishuo where a child's behavior is depicted... | |
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FAMILIES, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister. 
