Calcutta Review, Band 51University of Calcutta, 1870 |
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Abdálís Afghán Afghán king Afghánistán Ahmad Khán Ahmad Shah amongst army attempt beauty Bengal British Burman Calcutta called character chief coin coinage consequence Court cultivation Delhi districts Durrání effect Emperor empire England English European fact favour feel force French Ghaznín Ghilzís gold Government governor Herát hereditary Hindu Holkar India Indus interests Jamál Kábul Kandahár Khorásán kingdom Lagrée Lahore land Mahrattas Mashhad Mázandarán Mekong ment mind Mír Mogul MOGUL EMPIRE mountain Muhammadan Musalman Nádir Nasír Khán nation native natural never Núr Muhammad object officers Oudh permanent settlement Persian Peshawur Philistine political position possession present prince province Punjab Ráo regard rent revenue river Rohillas rupee Sadozaí Saul the king Sayyid Ahmad serpent Sháh shillings silver Sindhia square miles standard Talifoo things tion Tonquin tribes village Wahhabi Wazír whole woman women worship Yunan
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Seite 209 - Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag ; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavyfruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.
Seite 155 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Seite 136 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Seite 259 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Seite 209 - There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind. In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. There the passions...
Seite 155 - Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake To perish never ; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man, nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather. Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel tnither, And see the Children...
Seite 154 - There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing space I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in' the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books...
Seite 156 - To get rid of one's ignorance, to) 30 see things as they are, and by seeing them as they are to see them in their beauty, is the simple and attractive ideal which Hellenism holds out before human nature...
Seite 4 - I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Seite 156 - But, while Hebraism seizes upon certain plain, capital intimations of the universal order, and rivets itself, one may say, with unequalled grandeur of earnestness and intensity on the study and observance of them, the bent of Hellenism is to follow, with flexible activity, the whole play of the universal order, to be apprehensive of missing any part of...