Excursions in India: Including a Walk Over the Himalaya Mountains, to the Sources of the Jumna and the Ganges, Part 17,Volum 2Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832 |
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Excursions in India: including a walk over the Himalaya mountains ..., Volum 2 Thomas Skinner Visualització completa - 1832 |
Excursions in India: Including a Walk Over the Himalaya Mountains ..., Volum 2 Thomas Skinner Visualització completa - 1832 |
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Allahabad amusing animals appearance arrived banks Barahat bear beautiful Benares beneath Bhagirathi boat boatmen Brahmin Calcutta Cawnpore Chunar close colour crags crew daylight delight descended Dhoon Dinapore distance encamped eyes fancy faquirs fastened feet frequently Ganges ghaut goats Gungoutri hand Happy Valley head height hills Himalaya Hindoos holy horses India INDIAN INSTITUTE LIBRARY John Giles journey Jumna jungle fowl labour Landour look magnificent meal Meerut midst miles Mookba morning mountains Nanguan natives nearly neighbourhood never night obliged party passed Patna peaks pilgrims plains rain Rajah reached rest rice ridge river road rock roof round rush sacred saees scarcely scene scenery seemed seen servants shore side sight singular sirdar situation soon spirit spot stands stone stood stream Suchi summit SUTTEE temple tent thing thought tion town traveller trees valley vessel village wild wind women wood
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Pàgina 122 - The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemploy'd.
Pàgina 212 - Behold, I stand here by the well of water ; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink...
Pàgina 239 - ... them ; the drifting haystacks, which the country boats appear to be when at a distance, with their native crews, straining every nerve, upon their summits, and cheering themselves with a wild and not unfrequently a sweet song ; panchways shooting swiftly down the stream, with one person only on board, who sits at the head steering with his right hand, rowing with his foot, and in the left hand holding his pipe. A ferry-boat constantly plying across the stream adds to the variety of the scene,...
Pàgina 274 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Pàgina 7 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Pàgina 313 - NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC AND BEHRING'S STRAIT, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions : performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Capt. FW BEECHEY, RN in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. 8vo. "The most interesting of the whole series of expeditions to the North Pole.
Pàgina 198 - And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her; In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
Pàgina 58 - A small temple marks the sacred source of the river* ; and, immediately opposite, is the orthodox spot for bathing in, and filling the phials, which, when ready, receive the stamp of authenticity from the seal of the Brahmin, who wears it as a ring upon his finger: it bears the following inscription engraved upon it. — ' The water of the Bhagirathi, Gnngoutri.
Pàgina 35 - The natives of Ceylon as yet employ no paper ; they write on thin leaves of the Ola, and are obliged to make use of an iron pen, which they support in a notch cut in the thumb nail allowed to grow for that purpose : a literary man is discovered by such a mark. A quill, or a reed serves my friend of Mookba, for the pen runs as quickly over the skin of the boii as it would over the surface of a glazed sheet.
Pàgina 116 - Bring me instant intelligence what woman caused this accident, or wo upon your heads !" exclaimed the prince. In an hour the active attendants returned ; and, prostrating themselves, cried out, " O wise and powerful prince !" — " Well, who is she ?" interrupted he. " As the ill-fated labourer was working on the scaffold, he was attracted by the beauty of one of your Highness's damsels ; and, gazing upon her, lost his balance, and fell to the ground.