Life in India: Or, The English at Calcutta, Том 2H. Colburn, 1828 |
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Archibald Cary Coolidge arms arrived attendance ayah bank Barrackpore beautiful Benares Bently's boat Bowlow Calcutta Captain Bently carriage Cawnpore Charlotte cold Colonel Courtney Colonel Howard command creature Cumberland dawk dear delight dread Dundas Elizabeth Percy escape exclaimed eyes fate fear feelings felt Flora Fortescue ghauts give Goorkahs hand happiness Harriet head heard heart Hindoo honour hope horses hour husband impossible India instant jungle ladies leave letter light look loved Marriot matchlock Melville ment mind misery Miss Hume Miss Percy mistress morning mountains native never night observed palanquin pariah dog party passed Patna Percy's pinnace pleasure Ponsonby present received rendered rest returned river rolling stone round Russell Russell's Sahib scene seemed sepoys servants ship side sight sirdar bearer sister Somerville soon stream suffering tears thing thought tion trees turned voice waiting walked West wife wish
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Стр. 183 - Thames! Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods! Chose for his grand resort. On either hand, Like a long wintry forest, groves of masts Shot up their spires; the bellying sheet between Possess'd the breezy void!
Стр. 100 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free ? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass ? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Стр. 210 - The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest.
Стр. 133 - Had we never loved so kindly, ' Had we never loved so blindly, ' Never met or never parted, ' We had ne'er been broken•hearted.
Стр. 59 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Стр. 133 - Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest! Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, enjoyment, love, and pleasure!
Стр. 110 - They have but fallen before us: for, one day, we must fall. Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield.
Стр. 29 - Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand, It shifts in splendid traffic round the land ; From courts to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Стр. 114 - Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, — with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning, is the sun of his system ; and round this centre every doctrine issuing from his lips, every grace beaming in his soul, moved harmoniously.