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" ... swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants... "
Historical Essays - Page 353
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 501 pages
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...canopies of state; the gorgeous palankin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady—all those things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed—as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St. James's Street. All India...
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London, Volume 5

Charles Knight - 1843 - 442 pages
...the spears and the silver maces ; the elephants with their canopies of state ; the gorgeous palankin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady — all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed." * If such should...
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Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...the spears and the silver maces ; the elephants with their canopies of state ; the gorgeous palankin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady — all those things were to him as the objects amid which his own life had been passed — as the objects which lay OH the road between Beaconsfield...
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The land we live in, a pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British empire

British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...the spears and, the silver maces ; the elephants with their canopies of state ; the gorgeous palankin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady — all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed."* If such should...
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Knight's Cyclopędia of London, 1851

Charles Knight - 1851 - 874 pages
...related to India, especially as to the country and people, that they had become as familiar to him as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St. James's : " All India was present to the eye of his mind, from the hall where suitors laid gold and perfumes...
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Knight's Cyclopędia of London, 1851

Charles Knight - 1851 - 902 pages
...the spears and the silver maces ; the elephants with their canopies of state ; the gorgeous palakin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady — all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed." If such should...
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Knight's Cyclopędia of London, 1851

Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 pages
...the spears and the silver maces ; the elephants with their canopies of state ; the gorgeous palakin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady — all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed." If such should...
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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...of the prince, and the close litter of the lady, all these things were to him as the ob jects amid which his own life had been passed, as the objects...and St. James's Street. All India was present to the eve of his mind, from the halls where suitors laid gold and perfumes at the feet of sovereigns, to...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the lady, all these things were to him as the objects amid which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaeousfield and St. James's Street. All India was present to the eye of his mind, from the halls where...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...flowing robes, the M 4 spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which...
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