 | T. Hodgson Liddell - China - 1909 - 402 pages
...true British fashion. CHAPTER III MACAO The Old Portuguese Settlement and sometime Home of Camoens. " Gem of the Orient, Earth and open Sea — Macao: that...loveliest O'er which the sun smiles in his majesty" — BOWRING. THE visitor to Hong Kong should not, if time allows, fail to visit Macao. The delightful... | |
 | Julius Arnold - China - 1910 - 88 pages
...represent, perhaps, the most fitting and beautiful impression which the visitor to Macao can receive. Gem of the Orient Earth and open Sea Macao ! that...sun smiles in his majesty. The very clouds that top each mountain crest Seem to repose there, lingering lovingly. How full of grace the green Cathyan tree... | |
 | T. Hodgson Liddell - China - 1910 - 412 pages
...true British fashion. CHAPTER III MACAO The Old Portuguese Settlement and sometime Home of Camoens. " Gem of the Orient, Earth and open Sea — Macao: that...gathered beauties all the loveliest O'er which the sun smiUs in his majesty." — BOWR1NG. THE visitor to Hong Kong should not, if time allows, fail to visit... | |
 | John Stuart Thomson - Architecture - 1913 - 666 pages
...cosmopolitan world at the "Paris of the East", Shanghai Of Macao, the famous poet, Sir John Bowring, wrote : "Gem of the Orient earth and open sea, Macao ! that...thy breast Hast gathered beauties all the loveliest, Which the sun smiles on in his majesty. The very clouds that top each mountain crest, Seem to repose... | |
 | John Stuart Thomson - China - 1913 - 662 pages
...cosmopolitan world at the "Paris of the East", Shanghai Of Macao, the famous poet, Sir John Bowring, wrote: "Gem of the Orient earth and open sea, Macao ! that...thy breast Hast gathered beauties all the loveliest, .Which the sun smiles on in his majesty. The very clouds that top each mountain crest, Seem to repose... | |
 | Sir Merton Russell-Cotes - Travelers - 1921 - 648 pages
...none of the British order, cleanliness or sanitation, although the poet Bowring spoke of it as the " Gem of the Orient, earth and open sea — Macao :...loveliest O'er which the sun smiles in his majesty." There is a regular system of passenger steamers between Hong Kong and Canton several times weekly.... | |
 | Vaudine England - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 448 pages
...much that ! never forgot them. If you remember 1 repeated them to you before we came to the Grotto: Gem of the orient [earth] and open sea, Macao! that...lap and on thy breast Hast gathered beauties all the loveliest.'22 This gives a fascinating hint of a young Noel first reading this poem in Macao during... | |
 | Geography - 1880 - 382 pages
...memory, inscribed with the following beautiful poem written by Sir John Bowring : SONNET TO MACAO. "Gem of the Orient Earth and open sea, Macao ! That...thy breast Hast gathered beauties all the loveliest Which the sun smiles (on) in his majesty ! " The very clouds that top each mountain's crest Seem to... | |
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Gem of the orient earth and open sea, Macao! that in thy lap and on thy breast Hast gathered beauties all the loveliest, Which the sun smiles on in his majesty. 
