The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... earth and straw . The country was much infested by robbers , wandering like the Arabians from place to place . The people were greatly imposed upon by idle persons assuming the appearance of sanctity . One of these sat asleep on ...
... earth and straw . The country was much infested by robbers , wandering like the Arabians from place to place . The people were greatly imposed upon by idle persons assuming the appearance of sanctity . One of these sat asleep on ...
Page 119
... earth , with a Mahomedan Durgah on its top , near the Railway station , may be taken as a stupa of Asoca . The oldest ruins are those of the fort defended by Ramnarain against the Shazada , and situated very advantageously on a high ...
... earth , with a Mahomedan Durgah on its top , near the Railway station , may be taken as a stupa of Asoca . The oldest ruins are those of the fort defended by Ramnarain against the Shazada , and situated very advantageously on a high ...
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... Earth ? I name thee , Sacontola ! -and it is done . ' * By the side of the pure and guileless Sacontola , how little there is of the platonic , and how much of the ( * This has been put into rhyme by Professor Eastwick , and cited by ...
... Earth ? I name thee , Sacontola ! -and it is done . ' * By the side of the pure and guileless Sacontola , how little there is of the platonic , and how much of the ( * This has been put into rhyme by Professor Eastwick , and cited by ...
Page 154
... earth is pretended to be one of the mouths of that famous passage . The place has silted up , and paddy is grown , where the princess ' lived , and moved , and had her being . ' The whereabouts of the other mouth is quite unknown ; and ...
... earth is pretended to be one of the mouths of that famous passage . The place has silted up , and paddy is grown , where the princess ' lived , and moved , and had her being . ' The whereabouts of the other mouth is quite unknown ; and ...
Page 157
... however , is unknown . A predecessor of the present Rajah had attempted to dig up the hoards . But only wasps , hornets , and serpents issued from the earth . This is giving but another ver- sion to the old story of the ' burrowing ants.
... however , is unknown . A predecessor of the present Rajah had attempted to dig up the hoards . But only wasps , hornets , and serpents issued from the earth . This is giving but another ver- sion to the old story of the ' burrowing ants.
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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.