The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Tour from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, Through the Upper Valleys of the HimalayaG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1886 - 380 էջ |
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... officers . A railway is in course of construction , or is to be constructed , which will greatly facilitate access to it . As it is , we have to go eleven hours by rail from Calcutta , four hours in a river steamboat , 124 miles in a ...
... officers . A railway is in course of construction , or is to be constructed , which will greatly facilitate access to it . As it is , we have to go eleven hours by rail from Calcutta , four hours in a river steamboat , 124 miles in a ...
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... officers of the British Government , he will have an uncommonly bad time of it , and may consider himself fortunate if he is only brought back neck - and - crop to Pesháwur ( Peshawur ) and put under surveillance , or ordered out of the ...
... officers of the British Government , he will have an uncommonly bad time of it , and may consider himself fortunate if he is only brought back neck - and - crop to Pesháwur ( Peshawur ) and put under surveillance , or ordered out of the ...
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... natives which had led to his being murdered . I am sure such a case could have been made out against myself on more than one occasion ; and an officer on the staff of the Commander - in - Chief in India told me , TO THE HEIGHTS . 23.
... natives which had led to his being murdered . I am sure such a case could have been made out against myself on more than one occasion ; and an officer on the staff of the Commander - in - Chief in India told me , TO THE HEIGHTS . 23.
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... indignantly exclaim . To the officers and their families the hills are a delight- ful change ; but to the undeveloped mind of Tommy C Atkins they soon become exceedingly tiresome , though I believe TO THE HEIGHTS . 33.
... indignantly exclaim . To the officers and their families the hills are a delight- ful change ; but to the undeveloped mind of Tommy C Atkins they soon become exceedingly tiresome , though I believe TO THE HEIGHTS . 33.
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... officers , it will be found that most of the English in India , be they civilians , staff officers , educationalists , surgeons , merchants , missionaries , or editors , are com- pelled to live very laborious days , whether they may ...
... officers , it will be found that most of the English in India , be they civilians , staff officers , educationalists , surgeons , merchants , missionaries , or editors , are com- pelled to live very laborious days , whether they may ...
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The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Tour from Chinese Tibet to the Indian ... Andrew Wilson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1875 |
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afford Afghan Alexander Gerard allow appearance beautiful bigarries bridge British Bussahir called camp Chango Chinese Tibet Chota Khan cold coolies cross Dankar dark day's journey deodar descend English Englishmen European feet high glaciers gneiss gorges Government granite ground Hangrang height hills Himáliya Hindú Hindústhan houses immense India Indus jhúla Kailas Kashmir kind Kotgarh Kúlú Kunáwar Kúng-ma Ladak Lahaul Lassa Lío Porgyúl look Lord Lord Northbrook Masúri matter ment miles Moravian morning mountains Nako Namgea Narbada native nearly night officers Pagell Pangay pass path Peshawar plains polyandry pony precipices province range Rapua reach religion river road rock rope route scene servants Shipki side Simla slopes snow Spiti Srinagar steep stones stream summit Súrú Sutlej valley Tartar tent terraced fields Tibetan Tibetan language Tibetan mastiff tion To-tzo traveller trees village whole wild wind Yarkund Zanskar
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Էջ 201 - Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the Function never dies ; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish ; — be it so ! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour ; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
Էջ 201 - And many more, whose names on earth are dark, But whose transmitted effluence cannot die So long as fire outlives the parent spark, Rose, robed in dazzling immortality. 'Thou art become as one of us...
Էջ 90 - The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure: — But the least motion which they made It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Էջ 270 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Էջ 247 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses * Softly the light of Eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON, Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Էջ 248 - All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring; The Graces and the rosy-bosomed Hours Thither all their bounties bring.
Էջ 270 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Էջ 225 - If wish were mine some type of thee to view, Thee, and not thee thyself, I would not do Like Grecian Artists, give thee human cheeks, Channels for tears ; no Naiad should'st thou be, — Have neither limbs, feet, feathers, joints nor hairs : It seems the Eternal Soul is clothed in thee With purer robes than those of flesh and blood, And hath bestowed on thee a safer good ; Unwearied joy, and life without its cares.
Էջ 182 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature; for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura...
Էջ 170 - Himalaya still remain unsurpassed, and even unapproached, as regards all the wilder and grander features of mountain scenery. There is nothing in the Alps which can afford even a faint idea of the savage desolation and appalling sublimity of many of the Himalayan scenes. Nowhere, also, have the faces of the mountains been so scarred and riven by the nightly action of frost, and the mid-day floods from melting snow. In almost every valley we see places where whole peaks or sides of great mountains...