... with his face to Mecca, the drums, a.nd banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect,... Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review - Pagina 166door Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1876 - 798 pagina’s
...streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants and their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of...passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St. James's Street. All India was present to the eye of his mind, from the halls where... | |
| 1901 - 672 pagina’s
...black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect ; the turbans and and the flowingrobes, the spears, and the silver maces, the elephants with their...prince, and the close litter of the noble lady ; all those things were to him as the objects amid which his own life had been passed, as the objects which... | |
| Shaswati Mazumdar - 1998 - 164 pagina’s
...the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their...objects amidst which his own life had been passed ... All India was present to the eye of his mind.«84 Macaulay war offensichtlich von Burkes Schilderungen... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 768 pagina’s
...the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect; the turbans and the flowing robes; the spears and the silver maces; the elephants with their canopies of state; the gorgeous palankin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady . . . All India was present . . . from... | |
| 1877 - 408 pagina’s
...streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants and their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of...passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St. James's Street. All India was present to the eye of his mind, from the halls where... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1928 - 456 pagina’s
...faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of...the noble lady — all these things were to him as familiar as the subjects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and Saint James Street. All India... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1903 - 468 pagina’s
...faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of...of the noble lady, all these things were to him as familiar as the subjects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St. James Street. All India... | |
| Michael Edwardes - 1976 - 228 pagina’s
...black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans 30 and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their...prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all those things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1902 - 704 pagina’s
...the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of t ho prince, and the close litter of the noble lady— all these things were to him as the objects... | |
| 1842 - 576 pagina’s
...black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect ; the turbans and the flowing robes ; the spears and the silver maces ; the elephants with their canopies of state; the gorgeous palankin of the -prince, and the close litter of the noble lady — all those things were to him as... | |
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