Excursions in India: Including a Walk Over the Himalaya Mountains, to the Sources of the Jumna and the Ganges, Partea 17,Volumul 1Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832 |
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Excursions in India: including a walk over the Himalaya mountains ..., Volumul 1 Thomas Skinner Vizualizare completă - 1832 |
Excursions in India: Including a Walk Over the Himalaya Mountains ..., Volumul 1 Thomas Skinner Vizualizare completă - 1832 |
Excursions in India; including a walk over the Himalaya mountains, to the ... Thomas Skinner Vizualizare completă - 1833 |
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Pagina 322 - A wilderness of sweets ; for Nature here Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more sweet, Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
Pagina 107 - IN silent horror, o'er the boundless waste, The driver Hassan with his camels past ; One cruise of water on his back he bore, And his light scrip contain'da scanty store ; A fan of painted feathers in his hand, To guard his shaded face from scorching sand. The sultry sun had gain'd the middle sky, And not a tree and not an herb was nigh ; The beasts with pain their dusty way pursue...
Pagina 268 - I have beheld nearly all the celebrated scenery of Europe, which poets and painters have immortalized, and of which all the tourists in the world are enamoured ; but I have seen it surpassed in these unfrequented and almost unknown regions.
Pagina 110 - Schiraz' walls I bent my way ! " At that dead hour the silent asp shall creep, If aught of rest I find, upon my sleep: Or some swoln serpent twist his scales around, And wake to anguish with a burning wound. Thrice happy they, the wise contented poor...
Pagina iii - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Pagina 131 - ... European toilet. In roaming through the fair, you are amused by the tricks of the eastern jockeys : here one is ambling on a richly-caparisoned horse, with necklaces of beads, and bangles of silver, displaying his paces with the utmost dexterity; another is galloping as hard as he can, to show how admirably he can bring him on his haunches; while a third lets his horse loose, and calls him by a whistle, to prove his docility. Elephants and camels are exhibiting at the same time their several...
Pagina 10 - Remember what' our father oft has told us: The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with errors; Our understanding traces 'em in vain. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search; Nor sees with how much art the windings Nor where the regular confusion ends.
Pagina 128 - IT is not an easy matter to describe the singular scene that is exhibited at the fair of Hurdwar, where the Hindoos assemble in countless multitudes, to combine, as they every where contrive so admirably to do, their spiritual and temporal pursuits. For several miles before we reached it, we had passed thousands of people in every description of vehicle, hastening towards it. They were of all ages, all costumes, and all complexions ; no spot upon earth can produce so great a variety of the human...
Pagina 143 - Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night, And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which once untangled much misfortune bodes...
Pagina 287 - Has he horns ?" we both exclaimed, " A tremendous one ! " was the reply. " One, only ?" " Only one," continued the man, quite delighted with the interest we seemed to take in his narrative, " and that, O ! a terrible one;" stretching out his arms to show the length of it. He is sure to come into such a field before midnight.