Stray leaves from the diary of an Indian officerWhitfield, Green and Son, 1865 - 300 páginas |
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Página 1 - HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 160 - ... finish my journey alone; Never hear the sweet music of speech; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see: They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Página 1 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 162 - I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers...
Página 99 - Mogul time, the crew of a ship landed at a distance and stealing down the coast, attacked the temple, scaled the tower, and carried off the loadstone. The priests alarmed at this violation of the sanctity of the place, removed the image of the god with all his paraphernalia to Puri, where they have ever since remained, and from that date the temple became deserted and went rapidly to ruin.
Página 119 - the people had nothing to do with " the laws but to obey them," and his sentiment was loudly applauded.
Página 252 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Página 189 - ... near the shore, where there is a beautiful beach on one of the branches of the harbour. It crosses near the head of several small creeks, between them and fresh ponds, which are drained into them. It is defended by two batteries, one lying on the easterly side of the port, on low ground. The guns are not more than fifteen or twenty feet above the level of the sea. The other is to the north west, on the side of a hill, between one and two hundred feet above the level of the water, and has seven...
Página 100 - ... a primitive state of some of the arts, and a deficiency of architectural skill, at the period of its erection, one cannot but wonder at the ease with which the architects seem to have...
Página 279 - Catch who can, which is emBodied in Wordsworth's well-known version of — ' The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.