The Bengalle, Or Sketches of Society in the East, Band 2W. Rushton, 1843 |
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admiration amateur amid Amorett amusement appeared approach Bareillee Chair barouche Barrackpore Belnos Benares Bengal BENGALEE Berhampore boat bosom cabin Calcutta captain carriage Cawnpore character chief mate Chillum Chinsurah Constad daughter deck delight dream East Emily England English enquired European exhibit exile eyes factory fancy fearful feeling Forster Foujdar frequent friends gentleman habits half happy heard heart Honoria honour Hooghly hookah hour India John Bull ladies late Lesgrove Lieutenant look Maharajah Mahrattah mamma matchlocks ment military mofussil morning native Octavius Plantagenet Timms officer once Othello painting palkee party passed passengers person pillau poor present Punkah reached regiment retire rich river Hooghly rose Sadha scene seat seemed seen Sepoys serjeant servant ship side soldier soon soul strange thought tion trade vessel Virginie voice voyage whole William Forster wonder wonted young youth
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Seite 405 - After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses All but new things disdain; whose judgements are Mere fathers of their garments ; whose constancies Expire before their fashions.
Seite 28 - Oh ! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd, Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd ! The song is hush'd, the laughing nymphs are flown, And he is left, musing of bliss, alone ; — Alone? — no, not alone — that heavy sigh, That sob of grief, which broke from some one...
Seite 297 - ... anxiously-contended match, with a once formidable rival at the game. My ancient love for the whole progeny of my easy-chairs has already been explained to my readers; and now to be compelled to part with every one of them, or, at all events, to be permitted to select only the very smallest and least roomy of them, which the dimensions of my cabin would alone sanction my retaining ! My books, too, many of which really cost considerable sums, and were collected at much pains, it was mortifying...
Seite 284 - ... our Indian career, there are but few indeed who can settle themselves quietly and contentedly for aye, and who have not at heart the ceaseless desire to quit the present scene of sullenness and unsettled toil, to enjoy at last, in the bosom of their native country, the gathered fruits of exile and labour. ' It would certainly be as well for our Indian community, and the service at large, if it were imperative on all who come to India, that they quit it temporarily for Europe, after eight or ten...
Seite 291 - ... November, appear from a few young unpretending assistantsurgeons, shortly after the devastation of that scourge in India, will satisfactorily exhibit the whole progress of the attack. It lasted, happily, but for two or three hours, then was the usual — but to cut the matter short, in the afternoon I was relieved, and pronounced out of danger , and the very first use I made of my convalescence was to send for the plan and terms of accommodation of every ship, then advertised as homeward-bound,...
Seite 289 - ... have been worse, or more the slave of growing apprehension, had it been matrimony itself that I was venturing upon at this period of my earthly pilgrimage, instead of a return to the home of one's birth and supposed affection. And yet I was not dissimilar in my then existing state of mind to half the old gentlemen, whom English courtesy, or rather ridicule, has been pleased to designate as Nabobs, before they can positively make up their hearts to relinquish the East. To some, its loaves and...
Seite 288 - ... reminiscences in retirement, and in the frequent solitude of India, have been happily and pleasingly added to ? In fine, the very sources of enjoyment itself in this life will have become enlarged and better secured. '. These were the suggestions that arose in my mind whenever I essayed to view my return to England in a favourable light. True it is, a portion of these advantages could not appertain to me. If I should quit India, it must necessarily be for ever ! — and though it may appear strange,...
Seite 399 - ... of venison. An equal variety and abundance betrayed itself in the game and pastry ; as also in the fruits, wines, and dessert, till at last there was not a person about the hotel, from the landlady down to boots and the helper in the yard, who did not contrive to steal in, to peep at the newly ' arrived foreign gentlemen, at their plenteous and diversified repast.
Seite 283 - ... that old age was fast advancing on me, and that the finger of time was as busily employed in wrinkling my brow, as was the sickliness of the climate in sallowing over my thin and sunken features. Yet the very reflection that the sand of my glass was fast running to its close, made me anxious that its few remaining grains should be allowed to fall only in the land of my fathers ; and that the spot wherein I should be laid for my last long repose, should rather be the fresh grassy sod, on which...
Seite 286 - ... application ; prodigality and profusion may be mistaken as its attributes ; error and long-continued habit, may narrow or misdirect its course and power of acting, till, at length, its best uses are without benefit, and its very existence baneful to its very possessor. A restoration, for a few years, to our native country, while it improves the mind, and enlarges the power of observation, by the varying and unceasing display of food for it ; while it renews our intimacy with our remaining relatives,...