Fort St. George, Madras: A Short History of Our First Possession in India

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S. Sonnenschein, 1900 - Chennai (India) - 244 pages
 

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Page 149 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Page 179 - ... weather, by thrusting my legs into the sleeves, and drawing the skirts over my head. In this situation I lay, like Falstaff in the basket— hilt to point — and very comfortable, I assure you, all but my feet ; for the tailor, not having foreseen the various uses to which this piece of dress might be applied, had cut the cloth so short, that I never could, with all my ingenuity, bring both ends under cover ; whatever I gained by drawing up my legs, I lost by exposing my neck ; and I generally...
Page 179 - I brought from England, which, by a lucky invention, I turned into a blanket in the cold weather by thrusting my legs into the sleeves, and drawing the skirts over my head.
Page 201 - Born in America, in Europe bred, In Africa travelled, in Asia wed, Where long he lived and thrived; in London dead; Much good, some ill, he did; so hope all's even, And that his soul through mercy's gone to Heaven.
Page 179 - India, I laid my head on a pillow. ' But this was too much good fortune to bear with moderation. I began to grow proud, and resolved to live in great style! For this purpose I bought two table-spoons, and two tea-spoons, and another chair — for I had but one before — a table, and two table-cloths. But my prosperity was of short duration, for, in less than three months, I lost three of my spoons, and one of my chairs -was broken by one of John Napier's companions. This great blow reduced me to...
Page 137 - Milton's direct descendants can only exist, if they exist at all, among the posterity of his youngest and favourite daughter Deborah, afterwards Mrs Clarke, a woman of cultivated understanding, and not unpleasing manners...
Page 180 - ... travelling expeditions have never been performed with much grandeur or ease. My only conveyance is an old horse, who is now so weak, that, in all my journeys, I am always obliged to walk two-thirds of the way ; and if he were to die, I would give my kingdom for another, and find nobody to accept of my offer. Till I came here, I hardly knew what walking was. I have often walked from sunrise to sunset, without any other refreshment than a drink of water ; and I have traversed on foot, in different...
Page 179 - You may believe me when I tell you that I never experienced hunger or thirst, fatigue or poverty, till I came to India, — that since then, I have frequently met with the first three, and that the last has been my constant companion.
Page 124 - Paganism, and the only part of Christianity that was remarkable in him, was burying her decently, and he built a tomb over her, where all his life after her death he kept the anniversary-day of her death by sacrificing a cock on her tomb, after the Pagan manner.
Page 178 - Eastern luxury, to witness the forlorn condition of old bachelor Indian officers ; and to give them also some comfort in a consolatory fragment. You seem to think that they live like those satraps that you have read of in plays ; and that I in particular hold my state in prodigious splendour and magnificence — that I never go abroad unless upon an elephant, surrounded with a crowd of slaves — that I am arrayed in silken robes, and that most of my time is spent in reclining on a sofa, listening...

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