Cities of India Past and PresentConstable, 1903 - 346 pages |
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Page 94
... ornamented , con- verging to the apex , from which projects a heavy stone pendentive carved in open work . Tod supposes that the Hindu shrine was built two centuries before Christ , but General Cunningham infers , " but with some ...
... ornamented , con- verging to the apex , from which projects a heavy stone pendentive carved in open work . Tod supposes that the Hindu shrine was built two centuries before Christ , but General Cunningham infers , " but with some ...
Page 119
... , all of a pale pink or violet colour , ornamented with paintings , look well in the bright sunshine , but we miss the gloom and shadow , the mystery and romance of an Oriental city . The wide spaces , filled with a 119 JEYPORE.
... , all of a pale pink or violet colour , ornamented with paintings , look well in the bright sunshine , but we miss the gloom and shadow , the mystery and romance of an Oriental city . The wide spaces , filled with a 119 JEYPORE.
Page 125
... ornamented with brilliant frescoes , we reached a courtyard , the Court of Honour , paved with red and white sandstone . At one end rises the Diwan - i - Khas , a noble hall of audience . " A double AMBER - RUINED CITY . row of columns ...
... ornamented with brilliant frescoes , we reached a courtyard , the Court of Honour , paved with red and white sandstone . At one end rises the Diwan - i - Khas , a noble hall of audience . " A double AMBER - RUINED CITY . row of columns ...
Page 128
... ornamented in the same style as , but in better taste than those on the ground floor . On one side , overlooking the precipice , are large windows with delicate marble trellis - work , through which the queens had broken glimpses of ...
... ornamented in the same style as , but in better taste than those on the ground floor . On one side , overlooking the precipice , are large windows with delicate marble trellis - work , through which the queens had broken glimpses of ...
Page 135
... ornamented , runs round each story and affords relief to the eye . After six centuries the column stands as fresh as on the day it was finished . In Delhi we have the martial violence and religious senti- ment of Muhammadanism raised to ...
... ornamented , runs round each story and affords relief to the eye . After six centuries the column stands as fresh as on the day it was finished . In Delhi we have the martial violence and religious senti- ment of Muhammadanism raised to ...
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Agra Ahmedabad Ajmer Akbar arch architecture Aurangzeb beauty Benares Bengal Bombay Brahman British building built Calcutta capital carved Cawnpore centre century chief church Company court Delhi Diwan-i-Khas dome East Emperor Empire enemy English erected fire flowers Forrest French garden gate gateway Ghat Gingee gold Government Governor graceful ground Gujarat guns hall harem Hastings Hindu honour Humayun hundred India Jehan Jehangir Jey Sing Jeypore King ladies land lofty Lord Lucknow Madras Mahal Mahratta Malabar Point Marwar ment minarets Moghul morning mosque Muhammadan Musjid native noble Nur Jehan officers ornamented Oude palace pass pearls pillars Pondicherry Portuguese princes Queen Raja Rajpoot Rajpootana red sandstone residence rich river Royal sacred sent sepoys Shah Shah Jehan ships Shivaji shrine side siege soldiers stands stone Surat temple throne tion tomb tower town trees troops wall Warren Hastings white marble women writes
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Page 26 - The impotent man answered him, Sir I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool : but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Page 140 - Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared thou hast done; and, whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 209 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Page 146 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Page 271 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Page 57 - We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make Death proud to take us.
Page 1 - About the House was a delicate Garden, voiced to be the pleasantest in India, intended rather for wanton Dalliance, Love's Artillery, than to make resistance against an invading Foe...
Page 146 - In this hall was the famous Peacock Throne, so " called from its having the figures of two peacocks " standing behind it, their tails being expanded, and " the whole so inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, " pearls and other precious stones of appropriate colours
Page 42 - The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies'.
Page 185 - ... principle. Thus a faith based on some elementary principles traced itself on the mirror of his heart, and as the result of all the influences which were brought to bear on His Majesty, there grew gradually, as the outline on a stone, the conviction in his heart that there were sensible men in all religions, and abstemious thinkers, and mm endowed with miraculous powers, among all nations.