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... Akbar Khan . As this is the daily and hasty , though calculated to be the enduring produce of the leisure hours of a very young officer , commencing when he was only seventeen years of age , and ending on the night before his lamented ...
... Akbar Khan . As this is the daily and hasty , though calculated to be the enduring produce of the leisure hours of a very young officer , commencing when he was only seventeen years of age , and ending on the night before his lamented ...
Page 157
... Akbar Khan ) . Accordingly six hostages , and the withdrawal of all troops from the country was settled upon ; the first part of the agreement was immediately carried into effect . " In execution of the second all the disasters occurred ...
... Akbar Khan ) . Accordingly six hostages , and the withdrawal of all troops from the country was settled upon ; the first part of the agreement was immediately carried into effect . " In execution of the second all the disasters occurred ...
Page 158
... Akbar Khan , all the ladies were given up , and , together with their husbands , escorted back to Cabul . The 44th , and stragglers of the native troops , pushed on to Tezeen , where a desperate fight took place . 66 Elphinstone and ...
... Akbar Khan , all the ladies were given up , and , together with their husbands , escorted back to Cabul . The 44th , and stragglers of the native troops , pushed on to Tezeen , where a desperate fight took place . 66 Elphinstone and ...
Page 168
... Akbar Khan , with some horsemen , approached to reconnoitre , but was immediately driven off . to A few days ago , three Khyburrees conveyed from General Pollock three thousand rupees to Jellalabad , for " Sale , " for which service ...
... Akbar Khan , with some horsemen , approached to reconnoitre , but was immediately driven off . to A few days ago , three Khyburrees conveyed from General Pollock three thousand rupees to Jellalabad , for " Sale , " for which service ...
Page 170
... Akbar sheered off , and is some- where in the direction of Lallpoorah , awaiting our arrival . This news , it is thought , will delay our advance , as we have no cavalry that can be relied on to bring against him . The 3rd Dragoons will ...
... Akbar sheered off , and is some- where in the direction of Lallpoorah , awaiting our arrival . This news , it is thought , will delay our advance , as we have no cavalry that can be relied on to bring against him . The 3rd Dragoons will ...
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Page 97 - midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Page 125 - Inspiring thought of rapture yet to be, The tears of Love were hopeless, but for thee! If in that frame no deathless spirit dwell, If that faint murmur be the last farewell, If Fate unite the faithful but to part, Why is their memory sacred to the heart ? Why does the brother of my childhood seem Restored...
Page 104 - Pleasure, commonly subsided by sensible degrees, contended long with the encroaching waters, and harassed themselves by labours that scarce Hope herself could flatter with success. As I was looking upon the various fate of the multitude about me, I was suddenly alarmed with an admonition from some unknown power : ' Gaze not idly upon others when thou thyself art sinking. Whence is this thoughtless tranquillity, when thou and they are equally endangered ? ' I looked, and seeing the gulf of Intemperance...
Page 96 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 124 - Creatures of imitation and sympathy as we are, we look around us for support and countenance even in our virtues. We recur for them, most securely, to the examples of the dead. There is a degree of insecurity and uncertainty about living worth. The stamp has not yet been put upon it which precludes all change, and seals it up as a just object of admiration for future times. There is no service which a man of commanding intellect can render his fellow-creatures better than that of leaving behind him...
Page xx - He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time: For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked.
Page 125 - For the aqueous agents are incessantly labouring to reduce the inequalities of the earth's surface to a level ; while the igneous are equally active in restoring the unevenness of the external crust, partly by heaping np new matter in certain localities, and partly by depressing one portion and forcing out another of the earth's envelope.
Page 111 - O'ER the desert of life where you vainly pursued Those phantoms of hope which their promise disown, Have you e'er met some spirit divinely endued, That so kindly could say, You don't suffer alone ? And however your fate may have smiled or have frowned, Will...
Page 97 - Deserved to be dearest of all: In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee.
Page 82 - ... distrust of ourselves; which are not qualities of a mean spirit, as some may possibly think them; but virtues of a great and noble kind, and such as dignify our nature as much as they contribute to our repose and fortune. For nothing can be so unworthy of a...