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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... river . 66 The consideration of this ignorance was working in my mind , without either the thought of authorship or leisure for it , when , one evening , sitting at home , and reading a recent work on India which had become popular ...
... river . 66 The consideration of this ignorance was working in my mind , without either the thought of authorship or leisure for it , when , one evening , sitting at home , and reading a recent work on India which had become popular ...
Strana 45
... river at all times breast deep ; on the fourth side it is separated from another projecting hill , called Jaintî Mâtâ , by a deep dell , half a kōs wide . Could I , in the face of the garrison , have effected a lodgement by the Dewi ...
... river at all times breast deep ; on the fourth side it is separated from another projecting hill , called Jaintî Mâtâ , by a deep dell , half a kōs wide . Could I , in the face of the garrison , have effected a lodgement by the Dewi ...
Strana 47
... rivers Ravi and Byah , from whence the Sikhs originally sprung , spreading abroad as their arms prevailed . It has fre- quently happened that one small village , of fifty or a hundred ploughs , has fur- nished two or three Sardârs ; men ...
... rivers Ravi and Byah , from whence the Sikhs originally sprung , spreading abroad as their arms prevailed . It has fre- quently happened that one small village , of fifty or a hundred ploughs , has fur- nished two or three Sardârs ; men ...
Strana 58
... rivers Jelum , Chenab , Ravï , Byah and Sutluj , which constitute the Panj - ab or five waters . ( 9 ) Alexander the Great , under the name of Sikandar or Sikandar Beg , is fa- miliarly known all over the East . He and Rûstam are the ...
... rivers Jelum , Chenab , Ravï , Byah and Sutluj , which constitute the Panj - ab or five waters . ( 9 ) Alexander the Great , under the name of Sikandar or Sikandar Beg , is fa- miliarly known all over the East . He and Rûstam are the ...
Strana 61
... river , on whose banks I had so often played in my boyhood , and unable to escape my pursuers , had just gained the bank , when a magic power gently raised me from the earth , and in one bound landed me safely in the thick wood on the ...
... river , on whose banks I had so often played in my boyhood , and unable to escape my pursuers , had just gained the bank , when a magic power gently raised me from the earth , and in one bound landed me safely in the thick wood on the ...
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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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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.