The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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Page 44
... leave it off altogether . He did not speak with any man , and appeared to be in pretty good health . To Jahn - nugger , which is about four miles west of Nuddea , and below which the Ganges formerly held its course . Here is a small old ...
... leave it off altogether . He did not speak with any man , and appeared to be in pretty good health . To Jahn - nugger , which is about four miles west of Nuddea , and below which the Ganges formerly held its course . Here is a small old ...
Page 49
... leaves of trees , and any shelter from the heavy rains , has been remarked to parallel ' the retreat of the ten ... leaving behind his wife , embraced dundee- ism to shake off the obligations of society and the cares of a secular life ...
... leaves of trees , and any shelter from the heavy rains , has been remarked to parallel ' the retreat of the ten ... leaving behind his wife , embraced dundee- ism to shake off the obligations of society and the cares of a secular life ...
Page 59
... leave out everything that was national and peculiarly English . ' Kenduli is a venerated spot , where the mortal re- mains of the poet lie interred in a sumaj , overshaded by the branches of a splendid grove . To do honour to his memory ...
... leave out everything that was national and peculiarly English . ' Kenduli is a venerated spot , where the mortal re- mains of the poet lie interred in a sumaj , overshaded by the branches of a splendid grove . To do honour to his memory ...
Page 60
... leaving the others to chew the cud of disappointment . Such a thing was not possible for any of them in our case , and raw griffins of pilgrims that we were , our choice was given to the man who bore among Bukkesur , —the Hot Springs ...
... leaving the others to chew the cud of disappointment . Such a thing was not possible for any of them in our case , and raw griffins of pilgrims that we were , our choice was given to the man who bore among Bukkesur , —the Hot Springs ...
Page 97
... leaving his savoury pot of kicheery . In passing , we found the rocks to consist of huge boulders piled one upon another , and tufted with trees growing in their clefts . The westernmost one is the largest , and is inhabited by a ...
... leaving his savoury pot of kicheery . In passing , we found the rocks to consist of huge boulders piled one upon another , and tufted with trees growing in their clefts . The westernmost one is the largest , and is inhabited by a ...
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Page 144 - 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 154 - 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 208 - 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 145 - 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 271 - 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 124 - 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 191 - ... 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 125 - 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.