The Literature of Bengal: A Biographical and Critical History from the Earliest Times, Closing with a Review of Intellectual Progress Under British Rule in India

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T. Spink & Company, 1895 - 250 sidor

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Sida 146 - In the same manner the Sanskrit system of education would be the best calculated to keep this country in darkness, if such had been the policy of the British legislature. But as the improvement of the native population is the object of the government, it will consequently promote a more liberal and enlightened system of instruction; embracing mathematics, natural philosophy, chemistry, anatomy, with other useful sciences...
Sida 24 - In the company of damsels whose bright eyes in the ring Shine round him with soft meanings in the merry light of spring, The third one of that dazzling band of dwellers in the wood — Body and bosom panting with the...
Sida 141 - By taking the path which conscience and sincerity direct, I, born a Brahman, have exposed myself to the complainings and reproaches even of some of my relations, whose prejudices ^are strong, and whose temporal advantage depends upon the present system.
Sida 24 - Avith roses blown she fans a fragrance rare, That falls on the enchanted sense like rain in thirsty air, While the company of damsels wave many an odorous spray, And Krishna, laughing, toying, sighs the soft Spring away. Another, gazing in his face, sits wistfully apart, Searching it with those looks of love that leap from heart to heart; Her...
Sida 149 - Your works are made known to me by a book, in which I read a style which but for the name of a Hindu, I should certainly have ascribed to the pen of a superiorly educated and instructed Englishman.
Sida 24 - Oh ! golden red the mangoes, and glad the feasts of Spring, And fair the flowers to lie upon and sweet the dancers sing. Sweetest of all that Temptress who dances for him now With subtle feet which part and meet in the...
Sida 146 - But as the improvement of the native population is the object of the Government, it will consequently promote a more liberal and enlightened system of instruction, embracing Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Anatomy, with other useful sciences, which may be accomplished with the sums proposed by employing a few gentlemen of talent and learning educated in Europe and providing a College furnished with necessary books, instruments, and other apparatus.
Sida 221 - ... echo to his ideas; but the reader, after he has traversed the universe on the wings of the mighty poet, will descend with a sense of pleasure to the homely scenes of the novelist, peopled with figures and faces so true and life-like, so sparkling and animated, so rich in their variety and beauty, that they seem to be a world by themselves, created by the will of the great...
Sida 188 - D-arpan, anonymously, bringing together facts and incidents which had come under his observation, and weaving them into the main plot with the skill of a true artist. The literary beauties of the work are by no means insignificant.
Sida 139 - This, together with my known sentiments on that subject, having produced a coolness between me and my immediate kindred, I proceeded on my travels...

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