The Oriental Annual: Or, Scenes in IndiaEdward Bull, 1835 - Engraving |
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Page 196 - And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan : and the land was polluted with blood.
Page 16 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold, with strange, surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise...
Page 68 - Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits away: Then melts into the spring: soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first. All, to re-flourish, fades ; As in a wheel, all sinks, to re-ascend. Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.
Page 68 - tis revolution all ; All change ; no death. Day follows night ; and night The dying day ; stars rise, and set, and rise ; Earth takes th
Page 224 - Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Let not thy life be spent in inaction.
Page 16 - Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
Page 260 - Calcutta, sent a boat into one of the creeks to obtain some fresh fruits which are cultivated by the few miserable inhabitants of this inhospitable region. Having reached the shore, the crew moored the boat under a bank, and left one of their party to take care of her. During their absence, the lascar, who remained in charge of the boat, overcome by heat, lay down under the seats and fell asleep.
Page 89 - SWEET maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck infold ; That rosy cheek, that lily hand, Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand.
Page 178 - They themselves declare," says he, " that they frequently eat their own relations when aged and infirm « and that not so much to gratify their appetite, as. to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own children to eat him in the season when salt and limes are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round which his friends and offspring assemble, and as they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is, " The season...
Page 97 - Let not a man be querulous, even though in pain ; let him not injure another in deed or in thought; let him not even utter a word by which his fellow-creature may suffer uneasiness, since that will obstruct his own progress to future beatitude.