Biography of Reginald Heber, Lord Bishop of Calcutta: Abridged for the Use of Young PersonsLeonard C. Bowles, 1831 - 352 páginas |
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... plantains , and flowering shrubs ; the muddy ponds were covered with the broad- leaved lotus , and the adjacent paddy , ' or rice- fields , were terminated by a wood of tall cocoa trees , between whose stems the light was visible ...
... plantains , and flowering shrubs ; the muddy ponds were covered with the broad- leaved lotus , and the adjacent paddy , ' or rice- fields , were terminated by a wood of tall cocoa trees , between whose stems the light was visible ...
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... plantains from the Malayan Archipelago , of vast size and great beauty ; and , what excited a melancholy kind . of interest , a little wretched oak , kept alive with difficulty under a sky and in a temperature so perpetually stimulating ...
... plantains from the Malayan Archipelago , of vast size and great beauty ; and , what excited a melancholy kind . of interest , a little wretched oak , kept alive with difficulty under a sky and in a temperature so perpetually stimulating ...
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... plantains cluster- ing round them . Adieu . ' Yours most faithfully , ' REGINALD CALCUTTA . * To R. J. Wilmot Horton , Esq . ' My dear Wilmot , CALCUTTA , Dec. 1823 . ' This is a fine country , and , at this time of the year , a very ...
... plantains cluster- ing round them . Adieu . ' Yours most faithfully , ' REGINALD CALCUTTA . * To R. J. Wilmot Horton , Esq . ' My dear Wilmot , CALCUTTA , Dec. 1823 . ' This is a fine country , and , at this time of the year , a very ...
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... plantains and pine - apples , - and the sight of a very poor but simple , and by no means inelegant , race of peasants , are there prettier rides than those afforded by the lanes and hedge - rows round Calcutta . The mor- nings , from ...
... plantains and pine - apples , - and the sight of a very poor but simple , and by no means inelegant , race of peasants , are there prettier rides than those afforded by the lanes and hedge - rows round Calcutta . The mor- nings , from ...
Página 184
... plantains and oranges . The outer gates of most of the houses in Calcutta and Chowringhee are decorated with garlands of flowers , tinsel and gilt paper . These Christmas- boxes are said to be an ancient custom here , and I could almost ...
... plantains and oranges . The outer gates of most of the houses in Calcutta and Chowringhee are decorated with garlands of flowers , tinsel and gilt paper . These Christmas- boxes are said to be an ancient custom here , and I could almost ...
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animals appearance arrived attended bamboos Barrackpoor beautiful Benares bheestie bishop blessing boats Brahmins brother called carriage Christian church comfort crowd Dacca dear deck dress duty elephant England English European expected favorable feel flying fish Ganges garden grampus hands handsome happy heard heart Hindoos Hindoostanee Hodnet hope horses howdah India interest John Thornton JOURNAL journey July kind leave less letter looking Lord Amherst manner miles Miss Stowe mohurs morning native never night noble o'clock pagodas passed persons pinnace plantains pleasant poor prayers preached present pretty Raja Ranaghat received recollect REGINALD CALCUTTA Reginald Heber river round saees seen servants ship side silver sticks Sunderbunds Thornton thought tion told trees Trondheim turban usual vessel voyage walk weather whole wife wind Wynn young
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Página 298 - For, oh, if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ; One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss : And oh...
Página 85 - Thou art gone to the grave ! — we no longer behold thee, Nor tread the rough paths of the world by thy side ; But the wide arms of mercy are...
Página 275 - O'er broad Hindostan's sultry meads, O'er bleak Almorah's hill. ' That course, nor Delhi's kingly gates, Nor wild Malwah detain, For sweet the bliss us both awaits By yonder western main. ' Thy towers, Bombay, gleam bright, they say, Across the dark blue sea, But ne'er were hearts so light and gay As then shall meet in thee...
Página 274 - O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, And woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream My twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam, I miss thee from my side.
Página 340 - ... countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
Página 331 - Firm wast thou, humble and wise, Honest, pure, free from disguise ; Father of orphans, the widow's support, Comfort in sorrow of every sort, To the benighted dispenser of light, Doing and pointing to that which is right. Blessing to princes, to people, to me : May I, my father, be worthy of thee. Wishes and prayeth thy Sarabojee.
Página 85 - THOU art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.