The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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Page 66
... live in the style of the Great Mogul . His musnud and pillows are of the best velvet and damask richly em- .broidered . Before him are placed gold and silver salvers , cups , tumblers , pawn - dans , and jugs all of various size and ...
... live in the style of the Great Mogul . His musnud and pillows are of the best velvet and damask richly em- .broidered . Before him are placed gold and silver salvers , cups , tumblers , pawn - dans , and jugs all of various size and ...
Page 75
... wear loose trowsers , and then introduced live cats into them , lies buried here as the humblest of beings at the foot of the stairs leading up to the musjeed , so as to be trampled on 6 He by people going up . Here is an.
... wear loose trowsers , and then introduced live cats into them , lies buried here as the humblest of beings at the foot of the stairs leading up to the musjeed , so as to be trampled on 6 He by people going up . Here is an.
Page 79
... lives , and occupies the ancient ances- torial residence , which is in a very dilapidated state . He subsisted for many years by the sale of the family jewels , till , at last , the British government granted him a monthly pension of ...
... lives , and occupies the ancient ances- torial residence , which is in a very dilapidated state . He subsisted for many years by the sale of the family jewels , till , at last , the British government granted him a monthly pension of ...
Page 125
... hands . the key of the exchequer of Bengal , Behar , and Orissa . The fortress , occupied at the expense of nearly 5000 lives on both sides , is still in good order , and stands senses . upon an elevated ground , whence the view.
... hands . the key of the exchequer of Bengal , Behar , and Orissa . The fortress , occupied at the expense of nearly 5000 lives on both sides , is still in good order , and stands senses . upon an elevated ground , whence the view.
Page 143
... live with the blood of kine upon his head , was first sacrificed to appease the manes of the departed quadruped . The hue and cry then followed the Moonshee , who had not reckoned upon his being outwitted and betrayed by jackals . He ...
... live with the blood of kine upon his head , was first sacrificed to appease the manes of the departed quadruped . The hue and cry then followed the Moonshee , who had not reckoned upon his being outwitted and betrayed by jackals . He ...
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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.