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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... no use to me . So I set off from Simla , determined above all things to keep as high up as I could , and to have a snowy range between me and the Indian monsoon , and then , so far as consonant with that , PREFACE . vij CHAPTER.
... no use to me . So I set off from Simla , determined above all things to keep as high up as I could , and to have a snowy range between me and the Indian monsoon , and then , so far as consonant with that , PREFACE . vij CHAPTER.
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... range that , in this and two or three succeeding chapters , I would conduct my readers from the burning plains of India , in the hope of finding themes of interest , if not many matters of absolute . novelty . I have had the privilege ...
... range that , in this and two or three succeeding chapters , I would conduct my readers from the burning plains of India , in the hope of finding themes of interest , if not many matters of absolute . novelty . I have had the privilege ...
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... range of the Himáliya ; and yet , if he chooses to halt at various places by the way , a single step almost will take him into some of the wildest jungle and mountain scenery of India , among * The spelling of Indian names is at present ...
... range of the Himáliya ; and yet , if he chooses to halt at various places by the way , a single step almost will take him into some of the wildest jungle and mountain scenery of India , among * The spelling of Indian names is at present ...
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... range by a bridle - path , or be dragged painfully by tortured bullocks at the rate of half a mile an hour , as was the case only a few years ago ; yet he has only to stop at the picturesquely - situated bungalow at Egutpoora , and ...
... range by a bridle - path , or be dragged painfully by tortured bullocks at the rate of half a mile an hour , as was the case only a few years ago ; yet he has only to stop at the picturesquely - situated bungalow at Egutpoora , and ...
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... ranges easily intel- ligible . Both are immense bounding walls ; the one to the elevated plains of the Deccan , and the other to the still more elevated tableland of Central Asia . Carry- ing out this parallel , the Narbada ( Nerbudda ) ...
... ranges easily intel- ligible . Both are immense bounding walls ; the one to the elevated plains of the Deccan , and the other to the still more elevated tableland of Central Asia . Carry- ing out this parallel , the Narbada ( Nerbudda ) ...
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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...