The Calcutta Review, Volum 8University of Calcutta., 1847 |
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Pàgina 80
... occasionally seen to embark on land . No where is the Burman more at home , more intelligent , more indefatigable than in a canoe ; occasion- ally singing an extempore song in the chorus of which 80 THE TENASSERIM PROVINCES-
... occasionally seen to embark on land . No where is the Burman more at home , more intelligent , more indefatigable than in a canoe ; occasion- ally singing an extempore song in the chorus of which 80 THE TENASSERIM PROVINCES-
Pàgina 81
ally singing an extempore song in the chorus of which all join in admirable time , a crew will pull for hours , apparently but little wearied and always good - natured . Here lies their forte ; for on land they are soon fatigued , being ...
ally singing an extempore song in the chorus of which all join in admirable time , a crew will pull for hours , apparently but little wearied and always good - natured . Here lies their forte ; for on land they are soon fatigued , being ...
Pàgina 82
... singing . When the day arrives the coffin of the Poonjee , mounted on a high and gorgeously decorated car , is dragged to the selected spot , accompanied by a procession of these bands in gay attire : each party of fifty or more men ...
... singing . When the day arrives the coffin of the Poonjee , mounted on a high and gorgeously decorated car , is dragged to the selected spot , accompanied by a procession of these bands in gay attire : each party of fifty or more men ...
Pàgina 83
... singing and dancing . A " Pwey " is a spe- cies of mask or mystery , such as the old English revels and the Romanist festivals of our ancestors often witnessed , the chief difference being in the subject of the Pwey and its usual ...
... singing and dancing . A " Pwey " is a spe- cies of mask or mystery , such as the old English revels and the Romanist festivals of our ancestors often witnessed , the chief difference being in the subject of the Pwey and its usual ...
Pàgina 84
... singing , dancing , capering , and music , which lasts for four or five consecutive nights , and to which there appears no limit but the purse of the host , and the not easily satiated enjoyment of the audience . The whole exhibition is ...
... singing , dancing , capering , and music , which lasts for four or five consecutive nights , and to which there appears no limit but the purse of the host , and the not easily satiated enjoyment of the audience . The whole exhibition is ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
Act for Bengal agent appear army authority body Bombay Brahman British Government Bunds Calcutta Captain Durand Cashmere Cavalry character chief civil College conduct consequence considered Council Court diseases districts Durbar duties established European fact Ferozepore force frontier Goomsur Governor Governor-General guns Hardinge's Hindu India influence institution instruction interest justice Kabul Kandahar Khonds knowledge Lahore lakhs Lal Singh land Lawrence letter Lieut Lord Ellenborough Lord Hardinge Madras Maharajah Golab Sing matter means medicine ment military Missionary moral Moulmein native nature Nott object observed officers opinion passed persons political possession practice present principle provinces punishment Punjab pupils Rajah Lall Sing readers regiments religious remarks respect result revenue river rupees Sanskrit schools Sheik Imamooddeen shew Sikh Sindh Sir Henry Hardinge Sirdars soldiers soul Sutlej Tavoy tion treaty tribes troops truth Umballa Vizier whilst whole Zealand Zealand Company
Passatges populars
Pàgina 392 - And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Pàgina 405 - A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.
Pàgina 392 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Pàgina 420 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then, the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Pàgina 249 - WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave...
Pàgina 420 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Pàgina 53 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Pàgina 420 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Pàgina 420 - With listless eyes the dotard views the store, He views, and wonders that they please no more : Now pall the tasteless meats and joyless wines, And Luxury with sighs her slave resigns. Approach, ye minstrels, try the soothing strain, Diffuse the tuneful lenitives of pain : No sounds, alas ! would touch th...
Pàgina 420 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.