Soldiering in IndiaE. Stock, 1893 |
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... PLAINS 431 XVI . A VISIT TO OUDE • 439 XVII . THE HOMEWARD JOURNEY , AND VOYAGE DOWN THE GANGES 459 XVIII . LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD 528 XIX . FAREWELL TO INDIA ! 551 a CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS , ENLISTMENT , AND VOYAGE.
... PLAINS 431 XVI . A VISIT TO OUDE • 439 XVII . THE HOMEWARD JOURNEY , AND VOYAGE DOWN THE GANGES 459 XVIII . LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD 528 XIX . FAREWELL TO INDIA ! 551 a CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS , ENLISTMENT , AND VOYAGE.
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... plain , and the flood ; The land won for England by torrents of blood . To the East ! to the East ! spread the sail ! spread the sail To the East ! to the East ! blow , O prosperous gale ! To the East , whence our fathers and brothers ...
... plain , and the flood ; The land won for England by torrents of blood . To the East ! to the East ! spread the sail ! spread the sail To the East ! to the East ! blow , O prosperous gale ! To the East , whence our fathers and brothers ...
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... plain on which Calcutta stands - not a solitary hill is near it , * and a hundred years ago it was a swamp , the abode of tigers and other denizens of the jungle † -is covered with innumerable people of differing hue and aspect , in ...
... plain on which Calcutta stands - not a solitary hill is near it , * and a hundred years ago it was a swamp , the abode of tigers and other denizens of the jungle † -is covered with innumerable people of differing hue and aspect , in ...
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... plain to the sea . It is a fine city , * looked upon from a distance , but on a near approach loses much of its magnificence from the admixture which it exhibits of the mean with the magni- ficent . During the heat of the day , too , it ...
... plain to the sea . It is a fine city , * looked upon from a distance , but on a near approach loses much of its magnificence from the admixture which it exhibits of the mean with the magni- ficent . During the heat of the day , too , it ...
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... plain of Calcutta , and in the densely inhabited portions of the city . The best of these tanks were exposed to all the filth of the neighbouring roads and passers - by . The majority of them consisted of those holes out of which the ...
... plain of Calcutta , and in the densely inhabited portions of the city . The best of these tanks were exposed to all the filth of the neighbouring roads and passers - by . The majority of them consisted of those holes out of which the ...
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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...