 | 1830 - 604 pages
...magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference, I should have heen apt to he carried away hy the similar flights of imagination as inspire most...so many goddesses, concealed from the vulgar gaze. ' Truly, it is with difficulty that these ladies can he approached, and they are almost inaccessihle... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1827 - 554 pages
...sixty or more elephants ; in their solemn, and, as it were, measured steps ; in the splendour of the mikdembers, and the brilliant and innumerable followers...so many goddesses, concealed from the vulgar gaze. " Truly, it is with difficulty that these ladies can be approached, and they are almost inaccessible... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1827 - 548 pages
...sixty or more elephants ; in their solemn, and, as it were, measured steps ; in the splendour of the mikdembers, and the brilliant and innumerable followers...so many goddesses, concealed from the vulgar gaze. " Truly, it is with difficulty that these ladies can be approached, and they are almost inaccessible... | |
 | 1827 - 550 pages
...sixty or more elephants ; in their solemn, and, as it were, measured steps ; in the splendour of the mikdembers, and the brilliant and innumerable followers...so many goddesses, concealed from the vulgar gaze. " Truly, it is with difficulty that these ladies can be approached, and they are almost inaccessible... | |
 | 1832 - 486 pages
...in his hand ; and, surrounding her elephant, a troop of female servants from Tartary and Cashmere, fantastically attired, and riding handsome pad-horses....poets, when they represent the elephants as conveying as many goddesses concealed from vulgar gaze." It appears, however, that these journeys are not always... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1832 - 392 pages
...in his hand ; and, surrounding her elephant, a troop of female servants from Tartary and Cashmere, fantastically attired, and riding handsome pad-horses....poets, when they represent the elephants as conveying a» many goddesses concealed from vulgar gaze.' It appears, however, that these journeys are not always... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1833 - 398 pages
...splendour of their mik-dembers, and the brilliant and innumerable followers in attendance : and, if I hid not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort...poets, when they represent the elephants as conveying as many goddesses concealed from vulgar gaze.' DS It appears, however, that these journeys are not... | |
 | 1844 - 312 pages
...fourth ; and so on until fifteen or sixteen females of quality pass, with a grandeur of appear, •ance, equipage, and retinue, more or less proportionate...and that the splendour of such kings as Timour and Aurengzcbe was bought at the enormous price of the liberty and happiness of the people over whom they... | |
 | Sir William Patrick Andrew - 1878 - 498 pages
...handsome horses. Xo wonder if such a vision inspired the imagination of Indian poets, and made them " represent the elephants as conveying so many goddesses, concealed from the vulgar gaze." * Sydney Owen, Bernier, &c. CHAPTER X. • THE DECCAN. Physical Features — Ancient Splendour of Madura... | |
 | François Bernier - 1891 - 572 pages
...magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference, I should have been apt to be carried away by such flights of imagination as inspire most of the Indian...so many goddesses concealed from the vulgar gaze. Truly, it is with difficulty that these ladies can be approached, and they are almost inaccessible... | |
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... mikdembers, and the brilliant and innumerable followers in attendance : and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference, I should have been apt to be carried away by the similar flights of imagination... 
