Râs Mâlâ

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Richardson and Company, 1878 - Gujarat (India) - 715 pages
 

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Page 192 - A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Page 451 - Content" to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 605 - But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
Page 491 - In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Page 585 - For in the silent grave no conversation, No joyful tread of friends, no voice of lovers, No careful father's counsel— nothing's heard, For nothing is, but all oblivion, Dust, and an endless darkness.
Page 239 - Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire.
Page xxiii - Himala's diadem of ice peaks, to the throne of his virgin daughter, Rudra's destined bride, that has not supplied, at one time or other, contributions of wealth to the edifices which crown the hill of Palitana; street after street, and square after square, extend these shrines of the Jain faith, with their stately enclosures, half palace, half fortress, raised, in marble magnificence, upon the lonely and majestic mountain, and like the mansions of another world, far removed in upper air from the...
Page 547 - They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag : therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag ; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Page 318 - Sindia, in testimony of the sense entertained of the conduct manifested by him to the Bombay army at Wurgaom, and of his humane treatment and release of the English gentlemen who had been delivered as hostages on that occasion.
Page 29 - ... no circumstance can happen below, which is not written above. In every enterprise they consult their astrologers. When two armies have completed every preparation for battle, no consideration can induce the generals to commence the engagement until the Sahet * be performed ; that is, until the propitious moment for attack be ascertained.

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