Soldiering in IndiaE. Stock, 1893 |
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Page 14
... marble - like , Greek - like , pillared mansions , church spires , mosques , pagodas , and one tall monument - to Ochterlony ( statesman and warrior ) , as we afterwards find - stand be- fore us . The anchor is dropped . Friends who ...
... marble - like , Greek - like , pillared mansions , church spires , mosques , pagodas , and one tall monument - to Ochterlony ( statesman and warrior ) , as we afterwards find - stand be- fore us . The anchor is dropped . Friends who ...
Page 138
... marble , a gilt face , and four arms , holding in her hands the utensils of a Hindoo kitchen ; over which it may be presumed she is thought to preside in every household of her wor- shippers . In the outskirts of the city is a reservoir ...
... marble , a gilt face , and four arms , holding in her hands the utensils of a Hindoo kitchen ; over which it may be presumed she is thought to preside in every household of her wor- shippers . In the outskirts of the city is a reservoir ...
Page 201
... marble - till there is not even a tincture of colour in their lips . " Dr. Jeffreys says : " The mortality of barrack children is appalling , especially in the months of June , September , and October . At Cawnpore from twenty to thirty ...
... marble - till there is not even a tincture of colour in their lips . " Dr. Jeffreys says : " The mortality of barrack children is appalling , especially in the months of June , September , and October . At Cawnpore from twenty to thirty ...
Page 226
... marble tablets , bearing lists of names - a Romanesque building , with graceful campaniles - now marks the site of General Wheeler's entrenchment ; while the scene of the ( doubtless ) regarded me as a kind of curiosity 226 ...
... marble tablets , bearing lists of names - a Romanesque building , with graceful campaniles - now marks the site of General Wheeler's entrenchment ; while the scene of the ( doubtless ) regarded me as a kind of curiosity 226 ...
Page 227
... marble angel by Marochetti in the centre . To the left , on the very spot where the massacre took place , is a small cemetery full of memorials to the victims , overgrown with lovely creepers and roses and other flowers . Near this is ...
... marble angel by Marochetti in the centre . To the left , on the very spot where the massacre took place , is a small cemetery full of memorials to the victims , overgrown with lovely creepers and roses and other flowers . Near this is ...
Common terms and phrases
Afghan afterwards Agra Akbar Allahabad ancient animals appear army arrived banks barracks bathe bazaar beautiful Benares Bengal birds Bishop boats Brahmins British bungalow Calcutta Cawnpore Christian Chunar Church Church Missionary Society death Delhi elephants Emperor England English erected European famous feet flowers Ganges garden gold Government Governor-General hand hills Himalaya Hindoo Hindostan honour horses hundred idols India inhabitants Jumna jungle King ladies land live Lord Lord Auckland Lucknow magnificent Mahommedan marble Meerut miles military mission Missionary Mogul monkeys morning mosque mountains Mussulman native neighbourhood night occupied officers Oude palace passed Patna Persian plains present princes Provinces Punjaub Rajah regiment residence river road round ruins rupees sacred says scene seems seen sepoys Shah Shah Jehan Sikhs soldiers song station stone Sutlej temple thousand tomb town travellers trees troops village whole wild women worship
Popular passages
Page 54 - THOU art, O God ! the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Page 307 - HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page 285 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 420 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron Groves ; To where the Lemon and the piercing Lime, With the deep Orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend.
Page 201 - MYSTERIOUS Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue. Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo! creation widened in man's view.
Page ii - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 67 - We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue. We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly necessary to recapitulate.
Page 122 - THEY tell us of an Indian tree, Which, howsoe'er the sun and sky May tempt its boughs to wander free, And shoot, and blossom, wide and high, Far better loves to bend its arms Downward again to that dear earth, From which the life, that fills and warms Its grateful being, first had birth. 'Tis thus, though woo'd by flattering friends, And fed with fame (if fame it be) This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee ! LOVE AND HYMEN.
Page 152 - a Brahmana, beginning and ending- a lecture of the Veda, or the recital of any holy strain, must always pronounce to himself the syllable OM ; for unless the syllable Om precede, his learning will slip away from him; and unless it follow, nothing will be retained; or that syllable being prefixed to the several names of worlds, denotes that the seven worlds are manifestations of the power, signified by that syllable.
Page 235 - The gates unfolding pour forth all their train ; Squadrons on squadrons cloud the dusky plain : Men, steeds, and chariots, shake the trembling ground ; The tumult thickens, and the skies resound. And now with shouts the shocking armies closed, To lances lances, shields to shields opposed, Host against host with shadowy legions drew, The sounding darts in iron tempests flew ; Victors and vanquish'd join promiscuous cries, Triumphant shouts and dying groans arise ; With streaming blood the slippery...