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 4
... received on that first morning of my en- trance , when , in fact , I saw as much if not more of the town , than in all my future service . 66 Emerging from the narrow streets , ( not quite so narrow , how- ever , as those of Kâbul or ...
... received on that first morning of my en- trance , when , in fact , I saw as much if not more of the town , than in all my future service . 66 Emerging from the narrow streets , ( not quite so narrow , how- ever , as those of Kâbul or ...
Strana 8
... received him with presented arms . I was kept at the gate for some minutes after the Maharajah had entered ; and while thus detained , many of the soldiers broke their ranks and crowded round me ; some gazed respectfully at my train and ...
... received him with presented arms . I was kept at the gate for some minutes after the Maharajah had entered ; and while thus detained , many of the soldiers broke their ranks and crowded round me ; some gazed respectfully at my train and ...
Strana 10
... received less flattering marks of his favour I could have been at no loss to read the im- pression my reception had made on the courtiers , plainly written as eyes it was in the of all . Many who 10 PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF.
... received less flattering marks of his favour I could have been at no loss to read the im- pression my reception had made on the courtiers , plainly written as eyes it was in the of all . Many who 10 PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF.
Strana 28
... receiving ten shillings a day . The mushroom military discipline attempted by Ranjit Singh never harmonized in its parts ; discipline could not be established and upheld by the utmost exertions of a General standing alone with- out ...
... receiving ten shillings a day . The mushroom military discipline attempted by Ranjit Singh never harmonized in its parts ; discipline could not be established and upheld by the utmost exertions of a General standing alone with- out ...
Strana 31
... received a douceur of a month's pay . Every man who had seen me enter the town , now considered himself as my friend ; all who had spoken to me became my brothers ; elephants and horses , arms of all sorts , sabres of every price , from ...
... received a douceur of a month's pay . Every man who had seen me enter the town , now considered himself as my friend ; all who had spoken to me became my brothers ; elephants and horses , arms of all sorts , sabres of every price , from ...
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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.