La langue et la littérature hindoustanies de 1850 à 1869: Discours d'ouverture du cours d'hindoustani

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Page 105 - Methought I heard a voice cry " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M. What do you mean ? Macb. Still it cried "Sleep no more!
Page 135 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 296 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's. isle ; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown : The heathen in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone.
Page 132 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Page 361 - tis to see A whole assembly worship thee ! At once they sing, at once they pray, They hear of heaven and learn the way.
Page 347 - A land upon whose blissful shore There rests no shadow, falls no stain ; There those who meet shall part no more, And those long parted meet again. 3 Its skies are not like earthly skies, With varying hues of shade and light ; It hath no need of suns to rise, To dissipate the gloom of night. 4 There sweeps no desolating wind Across that calm, serene abode ; The wanderer there a home may find, Within the paradise of God.
Page 115 - Read and revere the sacred page ; a page Where triumphs immortality ,. a page Which not the whole creation could produce ; Which not the conflagration shall destroy ; Tis printed in the mind of gods for ever, In nature's ruins not one letter lost.
Page 134 - A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man? the rest a waste; Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands! Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death Such is earth's melancholy map! but, far 'More sad! this earth is a true map of man: So bounded are its haughty lord's delights To woe's wide empire, where deep troubles toss.
Page 417 - The woman's cause is man's : they rise or sink Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free : For she that out of Lethe scales with man The shining steps of Nature, shares with man His nights, his days, moves with him to one goal...
Page 256 - ... David et la beauté des hymnes védiques, comme nous sentons celle du Coran, au travers des traductions. Mais David et ses psaumes n'ont pas fait le code de la nation juive ; et les Védas ont été bien moins encore le code des Hindous. Le caractère multiple du Coran n'appartient qu'à lui; c'est tout à la fois un hymne, un psaume, une prière, un code, un sermon, un bulletin de guerre, une polémique, et même une histoire.

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