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... nearly dissolved under the strain . Afternoon tea with floods of sweet champagne had been a penance ; but the sufferings of the banquet , in an immensely long narrow room adorned with full - length portraits of previous Governors ...
... nearly dissolved under the strain . Afternoon tea with floods of sweet champagne had been a penance ; but the sufferings of the banquet , in an immensely long narrow room adorned with full - length portraits of previous Governors ...
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... nearly half a century ago " , the veteran rose in his place and led the enthusiastic cheers of the audience . It was all very simple and natural and touching . There was no trace of vanity or self - assertion in the action of the old ...
... nearly half a century ago " , the veteran rose in his place and led the enthusiastic cheers of the audience . It was all very simple and natural and touching . There was no trace of vanity or self - assertion in the action of the old ...
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... nearly half a century before . The dais , in the inner hollow of the horseshoe , surmounted by a domed pavilion directly copied from a building of Akbar at Agra , awaited its Royal and Viceregal occupants . At the sound of the bugle a ...
... nearly half a century before . The dais , in the inner hollow of the horseshoe , surmounted by a domed pavilion directly copied from a building of Akbar at Agra , awaited its Royal and Viceregal occupants . At the sound of the bugle a ...
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... Nearly all were grey - headed or white - haired , many were bowed with years , and were with difficulty supported by their comrades or by younger officers who con- ducted them round . In front marched a little knot of Europeans , headed ...
... Nearly all were grey - headed or white - haired , many were bowed with years , and were with difficulty supported by their comrades or by younger officers who con- ducted them round . In front marched a little knot of Europeans , headed ...
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... nearly twenty years had been guilty of gross maladministration , of shocking barbarity in the treatment of his subjects , and of persistent con- tumacy to the Government of India , only escaped a similar fate by himself expressing a ...
... nearly twenty years had been guilty of gross maladministration , of shocking barbarity in the treatment of his subjects , and of persistent con- tumacy to the Government of India , only escaped a similar fate by himself expressing a ...
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Page 347 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 205 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...
Page 73 - He put the vision by. Let dusky Indians whine and kneel, An English lad must die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink To his red grave he went.
Page 24 - The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.
Page 177 - Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang) In height and cold, the splendour of the hills? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted Pine, To sit a star upon the sparkling spire; And come, for Love is of the valley, come, For Love is of the valley, come thou down And find him; by the happy threshold, he, Or hand in hand with...
Page 67 - Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain.
Page 351 - 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.
Page 91 - O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't; A brother's murder! Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's...
Page 214 - I promise you that you may command not only the purses, but even the lives of your hearers. By impudence I have been a prophet, by impudence I have wrought miracles, by impudence I have restored the dying to health, by impudence, in short, I lead a life of great ease, and am feared and respected by those who, like you, do not know what dervishes are.
Page 361 - Holy" Damascus, this "earthly paradise" of the Prophet, so fair to the eyes, that he dared not trust himself to tarry in her blissful shades — she is a city of hidden palaces, of copses, and gardens, and fountains, and bubbling streams. The juice of her life is the gushing and ice-cold torrent that tumbles from the snowy sides of Anti-Lebanon. Close along on the river's edge through seven sweet miles of rustling boughs and deepest shade, the city spreads out. her whole length ; as a...