Anglo-Indian Domestic Life: A Letter from an Artist in India to His Mother in England, Volume 24 |
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amongst Anglo-Indian annas appearance arrowroot Ayahs Barrackpore bath Bazar bearers beautiful beer believe Bengal Bhishtee Calcutta carriages character climate cold common conveyance cook cool course Dhobee ditto domestic door drinking Emma Roberts England English European favour feet Fort William fruit garden ghee grain habits half Hindoo Hindoostanee horses India Indigo Jasminum sambac Jemadar Khansaman khidmutgars kind labour ladies late least Longan mango Mangosteen manufacture matter Mehtur milk Moosulman morning musquitoe native notice observed obtained occasion occasionally Ooriah palkee palm Palmyra Palm pān Patna persons pice plant plantain poor portion probably punkahs quantity rain reference rendered resident respect rice roopees per month sago season seen seldom servants soil sometimes spirit syce taste termed thing tion tree variety vegetable vessels Water Caltrops whilst whole wild Young Bengal
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Page 155 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 169 - Tis listening fear, and dumb amazement all: When to the startled eye the sudden glance Appears far south, eruptive through the cloud; And following slower, in explosion vast, The Thunder raises his tremendous voice. At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The tempest growls...
Page 169 - ... explosion vast, The thunder raises his tremendous voice. At first heard solemn o'er the verge of heaven, The tempest growls; but as it nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds: till...
Page 18 - Have then thy wish!' — He whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows : On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe...
Page 180 - I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renewed the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine : And, while the wings of Fancy still are free, And I can view this mimic show of thee, Time has but half succeeded in his theft — Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left.
Page 94 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 86 - With quicken'd step, Brown Night retires : young Day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
Page 162 - ... hours. The pith or farinaceous part of the trunk of old trees, is said to be equal to the best Sago ; the natives make it into bread, and boil it into thick gruel ; these form a great part of the diet of those people ; and during the late famine, they suffered little while those trees lasted.
Page 145 - This girl was of a yellow colour: had a nose like the flower of the sesamum ; her legs were taper like the plantain tree ; her eyes large like the principal leaf of the lotus ; her eye-brows extended to her ears ; her lips were red like the young leaves of the mango tree ; her face was like the full moon ; her voice like the sound of...
Page 164 - Even as those bees of Trebizond, — Which from the sunniest flowers that glad With their pure smile the gardens round, Draw venom forth that drives men mad...