Some Passages in the Life of an Adventurer in the Punjaub: Originally Published in the Delhi Gazette ...Gazette Press, 1842 - Počet stran: 275 |
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Strana 11
... already ? " " Do not Allard , Ventura , Avitable , Court , monopolize enough of the royal favour ? " and such like observations , now were silent , or with bland gestures and fawning caresses pressed forward to offer their services and ...
... already ? " " Do not Allard , Ventura , Avitable , Court , monopolize enough of the royal favour ? " and such like observations , now were silent , or with bland gestures and fawning caresses pressed forward to offer their services and ...
Strana 14
... already laid to cut short your career . Your best policy is to make friends of the brother Rajahs , Dhyân and Gulâb Singh ; and to avoid either quarrels or intimacy with the Europeans in the Maharajah's service . You are young , and ...
... already laid to cut short your career . Your best policy is to make friends of the brother Rajahs , Dhyân and Gulâb Singh ; and to avoid either quarrels or intimacy with the Europeans in the Maharajah's service . You are young , and ...
Strana 19
... already mentioned . ers . The European officers are kept more as drills , or as agents in the execution of difficult and dangerous enterprises , than as advis- Allard and Ventura . ( h ) have been allowed almost unlimited authority , in ...
... already mentioned . ers . The European officers are kept more as drills , or as agents in the execution of difficult and dangerous enterprises , than as advis- Allard and Ventura . ( h ) have been allowed almost unlimited authority , in ...
Strana 24
... already more than once deprived him of speech . I sent a preparation of steel , of which Dhyân Singh had the benefit . Right or wrong , such was his report of its efficacy , that from having no appetite it had made him ravenous , that ...
... already more than once deprived him of speech . I sent a preparation of steel , of which Dhyân Singh had the benefit . Right or wrong , such was his report of its efficacy , that from having no appetite it had made him ravenous , that ...
Strana 27
... already referred to in a note on the first chapter . The former is Dow dead ; I have heard him called an intriguer , but . believe he was only a good soldier , much respected by his men . It was the remnant of his cuirassiers who ...
... already referred to in a note on the first chapter . The former is Dow dead ; I have heard him called an intriguer , but . believe he was only a good soldier , much respected by his men . It was the remnant of his cuirassiers who ...
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Some Passages in the Life of an Adventurer in the Punjaub Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence Zobrazení fragmentů - 1970 |
Some Passages in the Life of an Adventurer in the Punjaub Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence Zobrazení fragmentů - 1970 |
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Aliverdi Amritsir appear arms Bellasis blood boats bold British brother called camp Chând Khân Chief Colonel Bellasis command court darbar death Delhi desired Dhyân Dhyan Singh effect enemy English European faithful faqir farangi favour fear feel Firozpur followers gained give ground Gulab Singh guns half hand head heart Highness hills Hindu horse hour hundred Kangra Kasur Kowr lady Lahaur land leader Lena Singh look lord Maharajah Mahtab master matchlock miles morning Multan murder Nand Singh night numbers officers orders Panjab party passed Patan person Peshawar plunder possession present Raja Rajah Ranjit Singh replied respect river royal Rupar rupees Sachet Singh Sahib Sardars scarcely servant Shah shew Sikh Sirhind Sodhi soldier soon Sutluj sword tell territory Thanadar third watch thought tion told took town troops trust usual Vaqil watch wise words
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Strana 87 - ... azure veins Which steal like streams along a field of snow, That lovely outline, which is fair As breathing marble, perish ? Must putrefaction's breath Leave nothing of this heavenly sight But loathsomeness and ruin ? Spare nothing but a gloomy theme, On which the lightest heart might moralize?
Strana 215 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; and happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Strana 241 - Clasp me a little longer on the brink Of fate! while I can feel thy dear caress; And when this heart hath ceased to beat — oh! think, And let it mitigate thy woe's excess, That thou hast been to me all tenderness, And friend to more than human friendship just. Oh! by that retrospect of happiness, And by the hopes of an immortal trust, God shall assuage thy pangs — when I am laid in dust?
Strana 157 - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Strana 241 - If I had lived to smile but on the birth Of one dear pledge. But shall there then be none, In future times — no gentle little one To clasp thy neck, and look, resembling me ? Yet seems it, even while life's last pulses run, A sweetness in the cup of death to be, Lord of my bosom's love ! to die beholding thee...
Strana 157 - ... good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Strana 87 - Seized on her sinless soul ? Must then that peerless form Which love and admiration cannot view Without a beating heart, those azure veins Which steal like streams along a field of snow, That lovely outline, which is fair As breathing marble, perish...
Strana 274 - Avitabili keeps down by grim fear what nothing else would keep down — the unruly spirits around him, who, if let slip, would riot in carnage ; his severity may therefore be extenuated, as the least of two evils.