The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 2N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... scene of desolation , strewed more or less with the ruins of broken columns , walls , gateways , and porticoes , in huge fragments of stone and masonry . Formerly , a great part of the surrounding low country had been laid out in an ...
... scene of desolation , strewed more or less with the ruins of broken columns , walls , gateways , and porticoes , in huge fragments of stone and masonry . Formerly , a great part of the surrounding low country had been laid out in an ...
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... scene rivalling the splen- dours of Agra . Often , from the glare and dust of that city , did Akber retire to this suburban retreat , to breathe purer air , and enjoy lovely rural sights . Here were his vast stables , his hawking ...
... scene rivalling the splen- dours of Agra . Often , from the glare and dust of that city , did Akber retire to this suburban retreat , to breathe purer air , and enjoy lovely rural sights . Here were his vast stables , his hawking ...
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... the town is now a wide - ex- tended scene of ruin , telling the mournful tale of the Rebellion . Only a solitary man was ploughing the fields alongside the road , and two little boys came Secundra , -Mogul Royal Road . 9.
... the town is now a wide - ex- tended scene of ruin , telling the mournful tale of the Rebellion . Only a solitary man was ploughing the fields alongside the road , and two little boys came Secundra , -Mogul Royal Road . 9.
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... scene . It was a lovely morn , and the spot was delightful with verdure . The branches of the lime and citron were pendant with crimson fruits . The shrubberies exhaled a sweet perfume , and the silence brooding over the place had a ...
... scene . It was a lovely morn , and the spot was delightful with verdure . The branches of the lime and citron were pendant with crimson fruits . The shrubberies exhaled a sweet perfume , and the silence brooding over the place had a ...
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... object to speak itself in a mute eloquence to the spectators . The imperial sepulchre designed by Akber , and completed by Jehangeer , is admirably con- structed to perpetuate a durbar - scene of the Great Secundra , -Akber's Mausoleum .
... object to speak itself in a mute eloquence to the spectators . The imperial sepulchre designed by Akber , and completed by Jehangeer , is admirably con- structed to perpetuate a durbar - scene of the Great Secundra , -Akber's Mausoleum .
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Akber American ancient appearance arches Author beautiful Bengal Brindabun British building built Buldeo Calcutta character Chinese cloth College containing court Crown 8vo David Urquhart Delhi DICTIONARY Ditto emperor English eyes F. J. Furnivall F. W. Newman feet Firoz Frances Power Cobbe French Gate gateway German gharry gold Gopinees GRAMMAR ground hall head Hindoo hundred Illustrations India Indraprastha inscription John Jumna Khan king Kootub Krishna Lalkot LANGUAGE late literature LL.D London Mahomed Mahomedan miles Minar Mogul mosque Musjeed Mussulmans Muttra native Notes original palace Patan PATERNOSTER ROW pilgrim pillar Post 8vo present princes Professor published Radha Rajah reign religion revised Richard Congreve Rig-Veda Royal 8vo Royal Asiatic Society ruins rupees Sanskrit scene Second Edition sewed Shah Jehan stone story temple Text Theodore Goldstücker throne tion tomb Translated traveller TRÜBNER viii volume Vrij walls white marble William