Govinda Sámanta: Or the History of a Bengal Ráiyat, Том 1Macmillan, 1874 - 383 стор. |
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... sort of paddy ripening in less time than is taken by the Aman , or the winter paddy . As some of our readers may not have seen a Bengal plough , it is as well to describe it here ; and we do not think the object is too low to be ...
... sort of paddy ripening in less time than is taken by the Aman , or the winter paddy . As some of our readers may not have seen a Bengal plough , it is as well to describe it here ; and we do not think the object is too low to be ...
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... sort of fire - place , where every night a fire , or rather smoke , of cow - dung cakes is made , chiefly for the purpose of saving the bovine inmates . from the bite of mosquitoes and fleas . The eastern side of the premises opens on a ...
... sort of fire - place , where every night a fire , or rather smoke , of cow - dung cakes is made , chiefly for the purpose of saving the bovine inmates . from the bite of mosquitoes and fleas . The eastern side of the premises opens on a ...
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... watched the movements of its little hands and fingers with the liveliest interest . Baby had no clothing of any sort . In Bengal , unlike England , 4 there is no fear of babies catching cold ; all VI . ] FATE AND NAME OF OUR HERO . 39.
... watched the movements of its little hands and fingers with the liveliest interest . Baby had no clothing of any sort . In Bengal , unlike England , 4 there is no fear of babies catching cold ; all VI . ] FATE AND NAME OF OUR HERO . 39.
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... sort is an admirable preparation for the child's duties in after life . Thanks to this grilling during infancy , there are scarcely any cases of coup de soleil amongst Bengal peasants , though they live in one of the hottest countries ...
... sort is an admirable preparation for the child's duties in after life . Thanks to this grilling during infancy , there are scarcely any cases of coup de soleil amongst Bengal peasants , though they live in one of the hottest countries ...
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... sort of hodge - podge , consisting of potatoes , brinjal , and tender stalks of the creeper pani ; fish fried in mustard oil , fish cooked with tamarind ; and , last of all , curds . The small party , consisting only of males - for the ...
... sort of hodge - podge , consisting of potatoes , brinjal , and tender stalks of the creeper pani ; fish fried in mustard oil , fish cooked with tamarind ; and , last of all , curds . The small party , consisting only of males - for the ...
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Áduri affray Águris Alanga amongst Badan Badan's house bamboo bathing Bengal Bengal ráiyat Bhima big hut body boys Bráhman bridegroom bullocks called caste ceremony CHAPTER child cow-dung cows cultivation Dárogá dhuti divána Durgánagar English factory father feast feet fields forehead friends Gayárám ghát ghatak ghosts girl goddess gods Govinda ground hand Hari hát head heard hero Hindu hookah horoscope husband husbandmen indigo Jagannath jamidár Jaya Chánd Kálamánik Kánchanpur land Mádhava Málati mandal Mánik marriage máthot morning mother Murray mustard oil Nanda Nava Krishna neighbouring never night Ojhá paddy Padma Pál palmyra peasant peasantry plant plantain planter plough poor quantity ráiyats Ráma Rúpa reader rent rice Rupá's Sáheb Sámanta sángát Sanskrit sitting smoking sort sugar-cane Sundari sweetmeats tank thatch took tree turmeric Vairági Vaishnavas Vardhamána verandah village wife woman women worship yard young zamindár
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Сторінка 208 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Сторінка 75 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write and cypher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran — that he could gauge...
Сторінка 323 - Why did all-creating Nature Make the plant, for which we toil? Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of ours must dress the soil. Think, ye masters iron-hearted. Lolling at your jovial boards; Think how many backs have smarted For the sweets, your cane affords.
Сторінка 19 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Сторінка 127 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Сторінка 146 - Rural confusion! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface.
Сторінка 153 - Laertes' head. And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Сторінка 187 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Сторінка 305 - Make enemies of nations who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Сторінка 52 - Quoth Ralph, Not far from hence doth dwell A cunning man, hight Sidrophel, That deals in Destiny's dark counsels, And sage opinions of the Moon sells ; To whom all people, far and near, On deep importances repair : no When brass and pewter hap to stray, And linen slinks out o...