Oriental Literature: The literature of India, ed. by E. Wilson

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Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Epiphanius Wilson
Colonial Press, 1899
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Страница 467 - LOTUS Love came to Flora asking for a flower That would of flowers be undisputed queen, The lily and the rose, long, long had been Rivals for that high honour. Bards of power Had sung their claims. "The rose can never tower Like the pale lily with her Juno mien" — "But is the lily lovelier ?" Thus between Flower-factions rang the strife in Psyche's bower. "Give me a flower delicious as the rose And stately as the lily in her pride...
Страница 390 - Well, now, that's just as it should be. SUPERINTENDENT : My good fisherman, you are an excellent fellow, and I begin to feel quite a regard for you. Let us seal our first friendship over a glass of good liquor. Come along to the next wine-shop and we'll drink your health.
Страница 367 - Most venerable father, she accepts your benediction as if she already possessed the boon it confers. KANWA. — Now come this way, my child, and walk reverently round these sacrificial fires. [They all walk round.
Страница 367 - Daughter, see, here comes thy foster-father; he is eager to fold thee in his arms ; his eyes swim with tears of joy. Hasten to do him reverence.
Страница 418 - Fairest of women, banish from thy mind The memory of my cruelty ; reproach The fell delusion that o'erpowered my soul, And blame not me, thy husband ; 'tis the curse Of him in whom the power of darkness reigns, That he mistakes the gifts of those he loves For deadly evils.
Страница 404 - KALIDASA men, who have no lineal descendants, passes over to a stranger at their decease. And such, alas ! must be the fate of the fortunes of the race of Puru at my death ; even as when fertile soil is sown with seed at the wrong season.
Страница 467 - Sharp contrasts of all colors here are seen ; The light-green graceful tamarinds abound Amid the mango clumps of green profound, And palms arise, like pillars gray, between ; And o'er the quiet pools the seemuls lean, Red — red, and startling like a trumpet's sound.
Страница 347 - Sakoontala is suffering from fever produced by exposure to the sun, and that this ointment is to cool her burning frame? Nurse her with care, then, Priyamvada, for she is cherished by our reverend Superior as the very breath of his nostrils.
Страница 368 - Sakoontala with loving wishes. VOICES [in the air]. Fare thee well, journey pleasantly on amid streams Where the lotuses bloom, and the sun's glowing beams Never pierce the deep shade of the widespreading trees, While gently around thee shall sport the cool breeze; Then light be thy footsteps and easy thy tread, Beneath thee shall carpets of lilies be spread. Journey on to thy lord, let thy spirit be gay, For the smiles of all Nature shall gladden thy way. [All listen with astonishment.] GAUTAMI.
Страница 337 - ... her, Yet are my hopes encouraged by her mien. Love is not yet triumphant; but, methinks, The hearts of both are ripe for his delights. [Smiling'] Ah! thus does the lover delude himself; judging of the state of his loved one's feelings by his own desires. But yet, The stolen glance with half-averted eye, The hesitating gait, the quick rebuke Addressed to her companion, who would fain Have stayed her counterfeit departure; these Are signs not unpropitious to my suit. So eagerly the lover feeds...

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