Forty years in the world; or, Sketches and tales of a soldier's life, by the author of Fifteen years in India, 2. köide |
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... standing in the water , and beating the clothes on a broad stone . A piece , for in- stance , is taken by the person , who folds it in proper form , and , holding it at one end with both his hands , he raises it over his head , and ...
... standing in the water , and beating the clothes on a broad stone . A piece , for in- stance , is taken by the person , who folds it in proper form , and , holding it at one end with both his hands , he raises it over his head , and ...
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... standing . " How dare you , " cried he , " false soodurs that you are , come to feast at your friend's with his cotton sticking to your beards ? " Those who had stolen the cotton instantly put up their hands . " Seize them ! " roared ...
... standing . " How dare you , " cried he , " false soodurs that you are , come to feast at your friend's with his cotton sticking to your beards ? " Those who had stolen the cotton instantly put up their hands . " Seize them ! " roared ...
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... standing on their ends . Over the barrels are ten or twelve plates of steel , poised so as to sound sweetly and loudly ; the bar- rels being of different lengths , produce treble and bass . The ca- malon is , in fact , an instrument ...
... standing on their ends . Over the barrels are ten or twelve plates of steel , poised so as to sound sweetly and loudly ; the bar- rels being of different lengths , produce treble and bass . The ca- malon is , in fact , an instrument ...
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Robert Grenville Wallace. the Indian guitar and tambourine ; and , notwith- standing the distraction which grief had produced , she retained her beauty in full bloom . All this may perhaps be thought consistent with Pope's character of ...
Robert Grenville Wallace. the Indian guitar and tambourine ; and , notwith- standing the distraction which grief had produced , she retained her beauty in full bloom . All this may perhaps be thought consistent with Pope's character of ...
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... standing on crystal tables or marble pedestals . The gilded statues of the Hindoo gods were also to be seen , like living monsters , leaning against the walls ; some with elephants ' faces , others with twenty heads , and as many arms ...
... standing on crystal tables or marble pedestals . The gilded statues of the Hindoo gods were also to be seen , like living monsters , leaning against the walls ; some with elephants ' faces , others with twenty heads , and as many arms ...
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Page 135 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 215 - O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace...
Page 217 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 167 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 137 - When Heaven would kindly set us free, And earth's enchantment end ; It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend.
Page 296 - Such is the powre of that sweet passion, That it all sordid basenesse doth expell, And the refyned mynd doth newly fashion Unto a fairer forme, which now doth dwell In his high thought, that would it selfe excell, Which he beholding still with constant sight, Admires the mirrour of so heavenly light.
Page 46 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Page 127 - WE may roam through this world, like a child at a feast. Who but sips of a sweet, and then flies to the rest ; And, when pleasure begins to grow dull in the east, We may order our wings, and be off to the west...
Page 95 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 38 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are linked in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing, and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die...