Burma as it Was, as it Is, and as it Will be

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G. Redway, 1886 - 184페이지
 

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11 페이지 - SHEPHERD. With Memorial Notices of the Author by SUMNER JONES and WJ LINTON. A new Edition. With Photographic Portrait of the Poet. " This remarkable poet affords nearly the most striking instance of neglected genius in our modern school of poetry. His poems are full of vivid disorderly power.
8 페이지 - Tobacco Talk and Smokers' Gossip. An Amusing Miscellany of Fact and Anecdote relating to " The Great Plant" in all its Forms and Uses, including a Selection from Nicotian Literature.
116 페이지 - Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood, Which runneth of one hue, nor caste in tears, Which trickle salt with all ; neither comes man To birth with tilka-mark12 stamped on the brow, Nor sacred thread on neck.
21 페이지 - His excellency the general of the lord who rules over a multitude of umbrella-wearing chiefs in the great western kingdom, the sun-descended King of Ava, and master of the golden palace, having appointed [here follow the names and titles of the fourteen Burmese officers], and the generals of the master of the golden palace of China, who rules over a multitude of umbrella-wearing chiefs in the great eastern kingdom...
86 페이지 - They petitioned the King, who, in his clemency and generosity, sent them large sums of money to pay their expenses...
7 페이지 - The dramatis persona .... are in reality strongly individual, and surprise one with their inconsistencies just as real human beings do There is something powerful in the way in which the reader is made to feel both the reality and the untrustworthiness of his [the hero's] religious fervour, and the character of the atheist, Graham, is not less strongly and definitely conceived It is a work that shows imagination and moral insight, and we shall look with much anticipation for another from the same...
17 페이지 - The Heptameron ; OR, Tales and Novels of Margaret, Queen of Navarre. Now first done completely into English prose and verse, from the original French, by ARTHUR MACHEN.
86 페이지 - In the years 1186 and 87, the Kula-pyu, or white strangers of the West, fastened a quarrel upon the Lord of the Golden Palace. They landed at Rangoon, took that place and Prome, and were permitted to advance as far as Yandabo ; for the King, from motives of piety and regard to life, made no effort whatever to oppose them.
119 페이지 - PATTA, the begging-bowl, round his neck, till the end, when his body is embalmed and burned on a funeral pyre erected at the public expense, he meets with the utmost veneration. The people make way for him when he walks abroad. The oldest layman assumes the title of disciple to the last inducted KOYIN and with clasped hands addresses him as HPAYAH, the highest title the language can afford. The monk's commonest actions — walking, sleeping, eating — are referred to in language different from that...
12 페이지 - And besides these, he had of horsemen and of footmen good 60,000 men. In short, he equipped a fine force, as well befitted such a puissant prince. It was indeed a host capable of doing great things. And what shall I tell you ? When the king had completed these great preparations to fight the Tartars, he tarried not, but straightway marched against them. And after...

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