The Silent India: Being Tales and Sketches of the MassesW. Blackwood and Sons, 1913 - 365 頁 |
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Anglo-Indian animal appeared Badrinath bamboo beast Bhotia birds Boodhoo Brahman camp carried caste cholera Chukwa considerable course crops dark death dharamsala Dhritarashtra disease district Durga Durga Singh dwelling European fact faquir feet fields fire forest gods Government ground Hari head heard Henry Ramsay hills Himalayas Hindu Hinduism incident India inhabitants interest Islamabad jheel jungle Kedarnath khareef Kumaon Lalloo land less living looking Lucknow Mahabir Pershad mahseer Maiki matter ment miles Moolchund morning mountain Muhammadan native nature never night officer once Oudh Paiga pass perhaps pilgrims plains police population possession presently probably race railway recognised regarding religious river sacred sadhu shikari shooting shot shrine Sikh smoke sometimes sound sport sportsman spot station stone story strange tent Thanadar things Tibet tiger tion town traveller trees Upper India usually village Vishnu Wazirabad wild women writer
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第 170 頁 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
第 170 頁 - That feelingly persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
第 331 頁 - Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace, Said then the omnific Word, your discord end. Nor stay'd ; but, on the wings of cherubim Uplifted, in paternal glory rode Far into Chaos and the world unborn ; For Chaos heard his voice.
第 203 頁 - Emperor Aurangzeb, I was on the top story of my prison, but I was not looking at thy private apartments or at thy queens ; I was looking in the direction of the Europeans who are coming from beyond the seas to tear down thy pardas and destroy thine empire.
第 331 頁 - Into one place, and let dry land appear.' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky : So high as...
第 161 頁 - Ducks, that they are condemned to pass the night apart from each other on opposite banks of the river, and that all night long each, in its turn, asks its mate if it shall come across, but the question is always met by a negative — "Chakwa, shall I come ? No, Chakwi.
第 194 頁 - Nature upon men — the impression of endless and pitiless change. He is the destroyer and rebuilder of various forms of life ; he has charge of the whole circle of animated creation, the incessant round of birth and death in which all nature eternally revolves.
第 34 頁 - We tend to believe that a man is lost unless he is overwhelmed with occupation, unless, like the conjurer, he is keeping a dozen balls in the air at once. Such a gymnastic teaches a man alertness, agility, effectiveness. But it has got to be proved that one was sent into the world to be effective...
第 296 頁 - In a hundred ages of the gods I could not tell thee of the glories of Himachal...
第 196 頁 - MENU held the first rank among legislators, because he had expressed in his code the whole sense of the Veda; that no code was approved, which contradicted MENU...