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Ali Baba amid Anglo-Indian Archdeacon Army Ayah Baba Baby Baby's Bearer beautiful Bengali Baboo Bheel Bishop bloom blue boys bright bungalow Caird charm chatter cheroot Chief clever Collector Commander-in-Chief Crown 8vo dear Vanity delight Duke of Edinburgh duties elephant Empire Eurasian everything fear feel flowers friends gáddi gaol Garnet Wolseleys Government of India GRASS-WIDOW hand hear heard heart Hill Captains horse husband Imperial joke jungle laugh laughter lives Lollipop look Lord Lytton Maharaja Mem Sahib misogyny native never Office old Colonel pass pine-trees Planter Political Agent Press Commissioner Raja RED CHUPRASSIE rides round rupees Secretariat Secretary servants shadows Shikarry silence Simla singing sleep smile soft Star of India station strange sunshine sweet tail-coat talk Thakores thee thing thought tiger tion travelling M.P. trees verandah Viceroy villager W. H. ALLEN whisper Whitley Stokes wild
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Página 173 - A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd; Love's feeling is more soft, and sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled snails...
Página 177 - I'd clasp it round so close and tight, And I would be the necklace, And all day long to fall and rise Upon her balmy bosom, With her laughter or her sighs, And I would lie so light, so light, I scarce should be unclasp'd at night.
Página 160 - Fair are others; none beholds thee, But thy voice sounds low and tender Like the fairest, for it folds thee From the sight, that liquid splendour, And all feel...
Página 116 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 203 - O Love ! who bewailest The frailty of all things here, Why choose you the frailest For your cradle, your home, and your bier ? Its passions will rock thee, As the storms rock the ravens on high ; Bright reason will mock thee, Like the sun from a wintry sky. From thy nest every rafter Will rot, and thine eagle home Leave thee naked to laughter, When leaves fall and cold winds come.
Página 68 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Página 177 - There kept my charms concealed from mortal eye, Like roses that in deserts bloom and die.
Página 67 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Página 175 - VIII. Lydia, dic, per omnis te deos oro, Sybarin cur properes amando perdere, cur apricum oderit campum, patiens pulveris atque solis, cur neque militaris 5 inter aequalis equitet, Gallica nec lupatis temperet ora frenis?