India (two lectures) The passion playBalch Brothers, 1897 |
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AGRA Akbar alabaster Ammergau appear astonishment Barabbas beautiful beheld Benares body Bombay Brahmin British Buddhist Caiaphas Calcutta called carved caste Cawnpore Ceylon Christ COLOMBO cremation cross Darjeeling death decorated Delhi disciples drama dred earth edifice English Europeans exclaimed fact feet in height fifty flowers Ganges garden Himalayas Hindu Hinduism hour Hugh Wheeler human hundred India Jesus jeweled Jeypore Joseph Maier Judas Kalighat Kandy Kofel land leave look marble miles millions minarets Mogul Mohammedans Moslem MOSQUE Mother mountain multitude Nana natives never Ober-Ammergau once Oriental palace paradise Parsees Passion Play peasants performance Pilate priests religion religious residents reverence river Roman SACRED TOOTH scene sculptured seemed Shah Jehan shrine sight soldiers stands stone stood streets structure summit tain temples thou thousand feet tion to-day tomb TOMB OF AKBAR towers trees uttered village walls words worship
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Pàgina 290 - Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
Pàgina 158 - Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, ' "* Which to discover we must travel too.
Pàgina 158 - When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last, Which of our Coming and Departure heeds As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
Pàgina 161 - Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and Future Fears: To-morrow.'— Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
Pàgina 265 - Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Pàgina 150 - Come hither, come hither — by night and by day, We linger in pleasures that never are gone ; Like the waves of the summer, as one dies away, Another as sweet and as shining comes on.
Pàgina 209 - GARDEN. has reared. Passing slowly around it, we viewed the Taj from the bank of the river Jumna. At each of the four corners of its pedestal a marble minaret springs heavenward, like a silver arrow, piercing the air one hundred and forty feet above the pavement, and on the eastern as well as on the western side of the huge platform stands a graceful mosque. No doubt these mosques and minarets were deemed essential, lest this majestic edifice should turn men's thoughts from heaven. At all events,...
Pàgina 265 - Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky." I noticed that the crowd itself was much more orderly and quiet than ten years before. The cause was evident. Then only the best seats had been reserved, while now each place in the great building had its number and correspon ding ticket.
Pàgina 158 - Think, in this batter'd caravanserai Whose portals are alternate night and day, How Sultan after Sultan with his pomp Abode his destined hour and went his way.
Pàgina 150 - We linger in pleasures that never are gone ; Like the waves of the summer, as one dies away, Another as sweet and as shining comes on. And the love that is o'er, in expiring gives birth To a new one as warm, as unequall'd in bliss ; And oh ! if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this.