Râs Mâlâ, Or, Hindu Annals of the Province of Goozerat in Western India

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Richardson, 1878 - 715 pages
 

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Page 505 - Content" to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 650 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind.
Page 665 - But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
Page 543 - In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Page 644 - For in the silent grave no conversation, No joyful tread of friends, no voice of lovers, No careful father's counsel— nothing's heard, For nothing is, but all oblivion, Dust, and an endless darkness.
Page 206 - A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Page 255 - Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire.
Page 646 - ... plate. Some ghosts of murdered persons, whose bodies have been secretly buried, cannot be at ease till their bones have been taken up, and deposited in consecrated ground, with all the rites of Christian burial.
Page 5 - Himala's diadem of ice peaks, to the throne of his virgin daughter, Rudra's destined bride, that has not supplied, at one time or other, contributions of wealth to the edifices which crown the hill of Palitana; street after street, and square after square, extend these shrines of the Jain faith, with their stately enclosures, half palace, half fortress, raised, in marble magnificence, upon the lonely and majestic mountain, and like the mansions of another world, far removed in upper air from the...
Page 636 - Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah: They shall not lament for him, saying, "Ah my brother!" or, "Ah sister!" they shall not lament for him, saying, "Ah lord!" or, "Ah his glory!" He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

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