Illustrated India: Its Princes and People: Upper, Central, and Farther India, Up the Ganges, and Down the Indus ... An Authentic Account of the Visit to India of ... the Prince of Wales |
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Illustrated India: Its Princes and People; Upper, Central, and Farther India ... Mrs. Julia A. Stone No preview available - 2018 |
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Afghan Agra Akbar Allahabad arched army Aurungzebe bank beautiful Benares boats Brahmins building built Calcutta called carriage caste centre centuries Chinese Chunar cloth coachee court crowd Delhi dome dressed elephant Emperor English European father feet flowers fortress Ganges garden gate gateway gharry ghâts gold grand ground hand head hill Hindoo hundred India Indus island jewels Jumna Khan king Lady Malika Lahore lofty look Lucknow magnificent Maharajah Mahratta Malay miles Mogul morning Moslem mosque mountain Mussulmen native night Noor Noor Jehan Noor-Mahal Oudh pagoda palace palkee passed pavilion Penang Persian pillars prayers priests Prince Rajah reign residence river roof royal ruins rupees sacred sarcophagus Selim Shah Jehan side Sikh Singapore stands steamer stood streets Sultan temple terrace thousand throne tiger tomb TOMB OF AKBAR took towers town trees Vizier walk walls white marble worship
Popular passages
Page 286 - It has, in fact, nothing which can properly be termed ornament. It is a sanctuary so pure and stainless, revealing so exalted a spirit of worship, that I felt humbled, as a Christian, to think that our nobler religion has so rarely inspired its architects to surpass this temple to God and Mohammed.
Page 393 - Firdaus rue zamtn ast — hamin ast to, hamin ast to, hamin ast (If there is a paradise on earth it is this, it is this, it is this).
Page 604 - ... from Her Majesty the Queen of England and India. In the name, then, of the Queen, and by Her Majesty's commands, I now invest you with the Honourable Insignia of the Star of India, of which Most Exalted Order Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint you to be a Knight.
Page 381 - grave : this grass is the best covering for the tomb of the " poor in spirit. The humble, the transitory Jehanara, the " disciple of the holy men of Cheest, the daughter of the
Page 567 - He is a small, delicately-framed lad for his twelve years or more, with a bright pleasant face. He was weighted, head, neck, chest, arms, fingers, ankles, with such a sight and wonder of vast diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and pearls, as would be worth the loot of many a rich town.
Page 567 - I heard of their value, and the little gentleman had more at home. He was met at the edge of the carpet, and strode with much solemnity to his seat, side by side with the prince. Sir Madhava Rao, Sir R. Meade, and a noble train of chiefs, came with him. The...
Page 373 - High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind; Or where the gorgeous east, with richest hand, Showers on her kings, barbaric pearls and gold, Satan exalted sat.
Page 489 - Bdnda, who had been bred a religious ascetic, and who combined a most sanguinary disposition with bold and daring counsels, they broke from their retreat, and overran the east of the Punjab, committing unheard of cruelties wherever they directed their steps.
Page 319 - The magnificent tomb of the King, inhabitant of the two heavens, Ridwan and Khool ; the most sublime sitter on the throne in Illeeyn (the starry heaven), dweller...
Page 189 - It is not in the likeness of anything in the heavens above, or the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth, that the highest musical capacity can be tried. It is not the dipping passage like a crested wave in "The floods stood upright as an heap," or the wandering of the notes in "All we like sheep have gone astray...