Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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... land is bright , but deadly is his glare , And poison loads the gales and rains of all the livelong year . My labours , too , are fameless here - all joyless every feast- My soul is sick for freedom from this weary , weary East . O for ...
... land is bright , but deadly is his glare , And poison loads the gales and rains of all the livelong year . My labours , too , are fameless here - all joyless every feast- My soul is sick for freedom from this weary , weary East . O for ...
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... land we start from , dear , the goal is still the same , And he who steers for duty's light must never think of fame . Our fates are but our motives , and ( if this is any balm ) Think if an age of pleasure can be worth an hour of calm ...
... land we start from , dear , the goal is still the same , And he who steers for duty's light must never think of fame . Our fates are but our motives , and ( if this is any balm ) Think if an age of pleasure can be worth an hour of calm ...
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... land ; the second of the " Lady Ermengarde , " who moves like an angel amidst the sick and wounded , pining in an hospital on the banks of the Euxine . These are too long for quotation , but the following passages exhibit Miss Leslie's ...
... land ; the second of the " Lady Ermengarde , " who moves like an angel amidst the sick and wounded , pining in an hospital on the banks of the Euxine . These are too long for quotation , but the following passages exhibit Miss Leslie's ...
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... land , " " Soul - father , " " gladly - guested , " " sigh - companioned , " " vale- lily , " " fondness - full . " We think it more important still to caution Miss Leslie against too great a love of word - painting , lest it should ...
... land , " " Soul - father , " " gladly - guested , " " sigh - companioned , " " vale- lily , " " fondness - full . " We think it more important still to caution Miss Leslie against too great a love of word - painting , lest it should ...
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... land , we will content our- selves with considering them all as classed under the two prin- cipal heads to which we have already alluded , viz : crimes and misdemeanors . In the Appendix * to the Prison Discipline Report of 1838 , may ...
... land , we will content our- selves with considering them all as classed under the two prin- cipal heads to which we have already alluded , viz : crimes and misdemeanors . In the Appendix * to the Prison Discipline Report of 1838 , may ...
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Page 94 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 93 - For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked 4 For there are no bands in their death : but their strength is firm.
Page 156 - How best to help the slender store, How mend the dwellings, of the poor; How gain in life, as life advances, Valour and charity more and more.
Page 228 - 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.
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Page 77 - Ceremonies;' together with plates of the system of torture and burnings at the Auto da Fe. I added that it was now generally believed in Europe, that these enormities no longer existed, and that the Inquisition itself had been totally suppressed; but that I was concerned to find that this was not the case. He now began a grave narration to...
Page 267 - Quenched is his lamp of varied lore That loved the light of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has LEYDEN'S cold remains ! XII.
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Page 69 - They constitute the surface level, and below them are deeps on deeps of depravity, so shocking and horrible that their character cannot even be hinted. There are some dark shadows in human nature which we naturally shrink from penetrating, and I made no attempt to collect information of this kind ; but there...
Page 387 - He now repeats that declaration, and he emphatically proclaims that the government of India entertains no desire to interfere with their religion or caste, and that nothing has been, or will be done by the government to affect the free exercise of the observances of religion or caste by every class of the people. The government of India...