The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... Brahmins . It is said of her , that a party of boat- men was rowing up the river to the sound of a melo- dious strain . Heightened by the stillness of the night , the plaintive carol came in a rich harmony to the ears of the goddess ...
... Brahmins . It is said of her , that a party of boat- men was rowing up the river to the sound of a melo- dious strain . Heightened by the stillness of the night , the plaintive carol came in a rich harmony to the ears of the goddess ...
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... Brahmin's daughter , led her to the hymeneal altar , and turned an honest Benedick in his old age . His descendants are the Provoos and Gossains , or ' Gentoo Bishops , ' as Mr Holwell calls them . The Gossains promise to ferry you ...
... Brahmin's daughter , led her to the hymeneal altar , and turned an honest Benedick in his old age . His descendants are the Provoos and Gossains , or ' Gentoo Bishops , ' as Mr Holwell calls them . The Gossains promise to ferry you ...
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... Brahmins . The great event is scarcely remembered , and has not been thought worth taking notice of by any of our historians , though it has done far more for our civilization and well - being than can be hoped for from railroads and ...
... Brahmins . The great event is scarcely remembered , and has not been thought worth taking notice of by any of our historians , though it has done far more for our civilization and well - being than can be hoped for from railroads and ...
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... Brahmins of which were once famed for the brilliancy of their wit and the purity of their Bengalee . It was , in those days , the innocent diversion of the rich Hindoos to listen to witty sayings , to laugh at the antics of buffoons ...
... Brahmins of which were once famed for the brilliancy of their wit and the purity of their Bengalee . It was , in those days , the innocent diversion of the rich Hindoos to listen to witty sayings , to laugh at the antics of buffoons ...
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... Brahmin , however , now marries 100 wives , nor does any widow think of sut- teeism , but re - marriage . The Baroary ... Brahmins cried out , Where is the goat ? on which another , more drunk than the rest , exclaimed , I will be the ...
... Brahmin , however , now marries 100 wives , nor does any widow think of sut- teeism , but re - marriage . The Baroary ... Brahmins cried out , Where is the goat ? on which another , more drunk than the rest , exclaimed , I will be the ...
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Page 150 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 160 - Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to bind together...
Page 214 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 151 - Juliet's story, they seem tenacious to a degree, insisting on the fact — giving a date (1303), and snowing a tomb. It is a plain, open, and partly decayed sarcophagus, with withered leaves in it, in a wild and desolate conventual garden, once a cemetery, now ruined to the very graves. The situation struck me as very appropriate to the legend, being blighted as their love.
Page 277 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 130 - Behind the bush the bowmen hide, The horse beneath the tree ; Where shall I find a knight will ride The jungle paths with me ? There are five and fifty coursers there, And four and fifty men ; When the fifty-fifth shall mount his steed, The Deckan thrives again !
Page 197 - ... of light from the landscape. Over the pure cloudless sky was the glow of the last light. The great mound threw its dark shadow far across the plain. In the distance, and beyond the Zab, Keshaf, another venerable ruin, rose indistinctly into the evening mist. Still more distant, and still more indistinct, was a solitary hill, overlooking the ancient city of Arbela. The Kurdish mountains, whose...
Page 131 - He then shewed me his garden and pagoda, and after a few common-place expressions of the pleasure I felt in seeing so celebrated a warrior, which he answered by saying with a laugh, he should have been glad to make my acquaintance ehewhere, I made my bow and took leave.