The Quarterly Review, Volumen 196William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1902 |
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... century , the more direct sea - borne trade began to set in , the touch of the East upon this country became much closer . The Elizabethan dramatists abound in allusions to India , conceived as a land of gorgeous wealth , full of gold ...
... century , the more direct sea - borne trade began to set in , the touch of the East upon this country became much closer . The Elizabethan dramatists abound in allusions to India , conceived as a land of gorgeous wealth , full of gold ...
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... century - rather a pro- saic and matter - of - fact age at home - were drawn by trade into India , and found themselves in the midst of a civil- isation far remote from that of Western Europe . The Mogul Empire , after the dramatic ...
... century - rather a pro- saic and matter - of - fact age at home - were drawn by trade into India , and found themselves in the midst of a civil- isation far remote from that of Western Europe . The Mogul Empire , after the dramatic ...
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... century , books about India began to multiply . They were written by men who , sometimes with no break at all , spent their whole working lives in India , and who , in those pre - railway days , travelling always by road or river , had ...
... century , books about India began to multiply . They were written by men who , sometimes with no break at all , spent their whole working lives in India , and who , in those pre - railway days , travelling always by road or river , had ...
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... century , and were , not without ennui , living the dull life of a pacified land , ruled by an alien race . The two Sikh wars and the Mutiny year left their mark upon a generation not yet entirely E 2 THE ROMANCE OF INDIA 51.
... century , and were , not without ennui , living the dull life of a pacified land , ruled by an alien race . The two Sikh wars and the Mutiny year left their mark upon a generation not yet entirely E 2 THE ROMANCE OF INDIA 51.
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... century ago . Kashmir is equal in size to six Switzerlands , though with a smaller population . Thus , although in India the supreme will is that of the British Government , there is an ample sphere of local government by the princes ...
... century ago . Kashmir is equal in size to six Switzerlands , though with a smaller population . Thus , although in India the supreme will is that of the British Government , there is an ample sphere of local government by the princes ...
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Página 42 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Página 483 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Página 461 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Página 327 - But self-government, in my opinion, when it was conceded, ought to have been conceded as part of a great policy of Imperial consolidation. It ought to have been accompanied by an Imperial tariff, by securities for the people of England for the enjoyment of the unappropriated lands which belonged to the Sovereign as their...
Página 458 - Whenas the rye reach to the chin, And chopcherry, chopcherry ripe within, Strawberries swimming in the cream, And school-boys playing in the stream ; Then O, then O, then O, my true love said, Till that time come again She could not live a maid ! AN.
Página 88 - So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as the pure sources of genuine diction.
Página 45 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Página 177 - IT is not Beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair: Tell me not of your starry eyes, Your lips that seem on roses fed, Your breasts, where Cupid...
Página 442 - The Shepheardes Calendar, Conteyning twelve Aeglogues proportionable to the Twelve monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and chevalrie M. Philip Sidney.
Página 191 - And as I sat, over the light blue hills There came a noise of revellers : the rills Into the wide stream came of purple hue — 'Twas Bacchus and his crew ! The earnest trumpet spake, and silver thrills From kissing cymbals made a merry din — 'Twas Bacchus and his kin ! Like...