Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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Page 87
... torture . The season of advent was at hand , and he remembered to have heard that that was the season when the Autos - da - fé were generally celebrated . He knew that they took place at intervals of two or three years , and he had now ...
... torture . The season of advent was at hand , and he remembered to have heard that that was the season when the Autos - da - fé were generally celebrated . He knew that they took place at intervals of two or three years , and he had now ...
Page 228
... torturing its bends through the vast possessions of the honorable company and the paddy fields that give so many millions nourishment - past the wheat and the corn and the indigo plantations - near where the poppy blossoms bloom under ...
... torturing its bends through the vast possessions of the honorable company and the paddy fields that give so many millions nourishment - past the wheat and the corn and the indigo plantations - near where the poppy blossoms bloom under ...
Page 267
... tortured shore Still rings to Corrievreckin's roar , And lonely Colonsay . Scenes sung by him who sings no more , His bright and brief career is o'er And mute his tuneful strains , Quenched is his lamp of varied lore That loved the ...
... tortured shore Still rings to Corrievreckin's roar , And lonely Colonsay . Scenes sung by him who sings no more , His bright and brief career is o'er And mute his tuneful strains , Quenched is his lamp of varied lore That loved the ...
Page 290
... the pattadars are aided and abetted in all means of acquiring profit , at the same time , they require strict supervision , or they will not pay up . We do not mean that torture or any- THE ABKARI MEHAL . thing of that sort is required 290.
... the pattadars are aided and abetted in all means of acquiring profit , at the same time , they require strict supervision , or they will not pay up . We do not mean that torture or any- THE ABKARI MEHAL . thing of that sort is required 290.
Page 402
... torture on the rack his wretched victims ; he may be carried to the wildest excesses of mad hatred , or the strangest freaks of refined cruelty - but he will never choose the victims of his religious rage for objects of his sensuality ...
... torture on the rack his wretched victims ; he may be carried to the wildest excesses of mad hatred , or the strangest freaks of refined cruelty - but he will never choose the victims of his religious rage for objects of his sensuality ...
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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.
Page 1 - Then, Sir, what is poetry?" JOHNSON: "Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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.
Page 190 - All surgeons at the end of last century and the beginning of the present...
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...