Sketches of India: With Notes on the Seasons, Scenery, and Society of Bombay, Elephanta, and SalsetteSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1750 - 300 pagina's |
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Pagina 54
... figures , in strange , uncouth attitudes , though often representing very faithfully some of the favourite birds , animals , & c . , which are held sacred by the natives ; these figures being sup- posed to watch over , as good spirits ...
... figures , in strange , uncouth attitudes , though often representing very faithfully some of the favourite birds , animals , & c . , which are held sacred by the natives ; these figures being sup- posed to watch over , as good spirits ...
Pagina 64
... figures of birds , beasts , and flowers - using a rude little instrument , about two inches long , not unlike a common nail . They carve in ivory but indifferently . The Potdars , or money- changers , take up their position at the ...
... figures of birds , beasts , and flowers - using a rude little instrument , about two inches long , not unlike a common nail . They carve in ivory but indifferently . The Potdars , or money- changers , take up their position at the ...
Pagina 70
... figure and high cheek - bones seldom fail to attract attention . The sweetmeat - vender has his little stall spread out in the street . What a curious collection of things do we find here to tempt the appetite , or to quench the ...
... figure and high cheek - bones seldom fail to attract attention . The sweetmeat - vender has his little stall spread out in the street . What a curious collection of things do we find here to tempt the appetite , or to quench the ...
Pagina 76
... figure , flowers , and bits of coloured paper , and these have gradually accumulated in such heaps as almost to conceal two melancholy marble ladies , who are gazing sweetly on the besieger of Seringapatam . Upon making some enquiries ...
... figure , flowers , and bits of coloured paper , and these have gradually accumulated in such heaps as almost to conceal two melancholy marble ladies , who are gazing sweetly on the besieger of Seringapatam . Upon making some enquiries ...
Pagina 88
... figures , and are dressed up in such odd garments , with their heads and faces tied up to protect them from the weather , that it is difficult to decide to what caste or country they belong . As a class of labourers , they often excited ...
... figures , and are dressed up in such odd garments , with their heads and faces tied up to protect them from the weather , that it is difficult to decide to what caste or country they belong . As a class of labourers , they often excited ...
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Sketches of India: With Notes on the Seasons, Scenery, and Society of Bombay ... Henry Moses Volledige weergave - 1750 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 178 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Pagina 200 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Pagina 19 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin, his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Pagina 118 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Pagina 38 - O ETERNAL Lord God, who alone spreadest out the heavens, and rulest the raging of the sea ; who hast compassed the waters with bounds, until day and night come to an end...
Pagina 134 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the god-head who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Pagina 90 - But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows...
Pagina 109 - Every man is brutish in his knowledge : every founder is confounded by the graven image : for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors : in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Pagina 26 - And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The stormy petrel finds a home; A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them to spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!
Pagina 189 - Like the gale, that sighs along Beds of oriental flowers, Is the grateful breath of song, That once was heard in happier hours ; Fill'd with balm, the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives in Music's breath.