The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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Page 78
... tomb , and perform certain ceremonies of mourning in memory of her deceased husband . ' The marriage of Suraja - a- Dowla was one of the most magnificent on record . It was celebrated by Ali Verdi , who ' kept a continued feasting for a ...
... tomb , and perform certain ceremonies of mourning in memory of her deceased husband . ' The marriage of Suraja - a- Dowla was one of the most magnificent on record . It was celebrated by Ali Verdi , who ' kept a continued feasting for a ...
Page 97
... tomb of the Mussulman saint and warrior . The tomb , ' says Heber , ' is well worth the trouble of climbing the hill . It stands on a platform of rock , surrounded by a battlemented wall , with a gate very prettily orna- mented , and ...
... tomb of the Mussulman saint and warrior . The tomb , ' says Heber , ' is well worth the trouble of climbing the hill . It stands on a platform of rock , surrounded by a battlemented wall , with a gate very prettily orna- mented , and ...
Page 99
... tomb stands on a little cliff above the river , overhung by some fine bamboos . Next is Colgong , a pretty and pleasant spot . Here , in the bed of the river , are seen three very picturesque rocks . In vulgar Hindoo tradition , they ...
... tomb stands on a little cliff above the river , overhung by some fine bamboos . Next is Colgong , a pretty and pleasant spot . Here , in the bed of the river , are seen three very picturesque rocks . In vulgar Hindoo tradition , they ...
Page 110
... tombs . ' The town is large enough and well kept up , having pretty roads and streets with a moderate population . The river - side face of the native town has an imposing appearance with its high stone - ghauts , temples , and shady ...
... tombs . ' The town is large enough and well kept up , having pretty roads and streets with a moderate population . The river - side face of the native town has an imposing appearance with its high stone - ghauts , temples , and shady ...
Page 129
... tomb , neither has altar , statue , nor inscrip- tion . It is , in fact , a " folly " of the same sort , but far more ambitious and costly than that which is built at Barrackpore , and it is vexatious to think that a very handsome ...
... tomb , neither has altar , statue , nor inscrip- tion . It is , in fact , a " folly " of the same sort , but far more ambitious and costly than that which is built at Barrackpore , and it is vexatious to think that a very handsome ...
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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.