Bengal Peasant LifeMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1913 - 383 páginas |
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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 looked 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 Sáheb Sámanta sángát Sanskrit sitting smoking sort sugar-cane Sundari sweetmeats tank thatch took tree turmeric Vairági Vaishnavas Vardhamána verandah Vidhátá village wife woman women worship yard young zamindár
Passagens conhecidas
Página 56 - In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra.
Página 75 - The love he bore to learning was in fault : The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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 : — List, list, O list!
Página 335 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast...
Página 235 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare: Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way: O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love.
Página 5 - THE Village Life, and every care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains ; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last ; What form the real picture of the poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The rustic poet praised his native plains : No shepherds now, in smooth alternate verse, Their country's beauty or .their nymphs...
Página 364 - Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds ! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away : so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.