Glimpses of Old Bombay and Western India, with Other PapersS. Low, Marston, 1900 - 334 páginas |
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Akbar Albuquerque Alexander Andrew's Aquaviva arrived August ballads Bank of Bombay Barygaza Bombay Gazette bungalow Burns Byculla Byculla Club Calcutta Captain Castle Charles Church Colaba Court Cursetjee dead death Dekhan died dinner doubt Draper East India Egypt Eliza Elphinstone England English Erskine Esplanade European fifty Forbes Frere Gate gold Government Governor Governor of Bombay harbour Herodotus honour Hotel House India Jamsetjee January July King ladies land letters lived London Lord Mackintosh Madras Malabar Hill Malcolm March Master Matheran Mazagon memory merchants miles months Mountstuart Elphinstone natives Nelson never night November palkee Parell Persian Pliny Poona reader Red Sea Robert sail Salsette Seahorse seen ship Sir Bartle Frere Sir John Society spectre Strabo Suez Tellichery tomb took Town Hall traveller voyage Waghorn Warren Hastings Western India William Wilson words
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Página 235 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 278 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 85 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Página 253 - Born in America, in Europe bred, In Afrie travelled, and in Asia wed ; "Where long he lived and thrived, in London dead. Much good, some ill, he did; so hope all's even, And that his soul through mercy's gone to Heaven.
Página 322 - Behind the bush the bowmen hide, The horse beneath the tree ; Where shall I find a knight will ride The jungle paths with me ? There are five and fifty coursers there, And four and fifty men ; When the fifty-fifth shall mount his steed, The Deckan thrives again !
Página 217 - with a feeling that I should never rise in my profession. My mind was staggered with a view of the difficulties I had to surmount, and the little interest I possessed. I could discover no means of reaching the object of my ambition.
Página 104 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Página 70 - No, sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Página 11 - ... in this remote region of the earth, with the honour of that beloved country, which, I trust, becomes more dear to you, as I am sure it does to me, during every new moment of absence : that, in your intercourse with each other, as well as with the natives of India, you will keep unspotted the ancient character of the British nation — renowned in every age, and in no age more than the present for valour, for justice, for humanity, and generosity ; for every virtue which supports, as well as for...
Página 62 - In all varieties of lands and climates their hearts ever turn towards the 'land o' cakes and brither Scots.' Scottish festivals are kept with Scottish feeling on ' Greenland's icy mountains ' or ' India's coral strand.' I received an amusing account of an ebullition of this patriotic feeling from my late noble friend the Marquis of Lothian, who met with it when travelling in India. He happened to arrive at a station upon the eve of St Andrew's Day, and received an invitation to join a Scottish dinnerparty...