Tea is like the East he grows in, A great yellow Mandarin With urbanity of manner And unconsciousness of sin.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  The Flying Inn, ch.18, stanza 2. Collected as'The Song of Right and Wrong' in Wine, Water and Song (1915).

I have called this stylethe Mandarin style† It isthe style of those writers whose tendency is to make their language convey more than they mean or more than they feel, it is the style of most artists and all humbugs.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  Enemies of Promise, ch.20.