The Modern Traveller. A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical of the Various Countries of the Globe: Egypt, Nubia et Abyssinia. Parts 33-36James Duncan, 1828 |
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Página 148 - ... seventy-five years. The most extraordinary ward was that appropriated to rats, mice, bugs, and other noxious vermin : the overseers of the hospital frequently hire beggars from the streets, for a stipulated sum, to pass a night...
Página 15 - ... cassock, and thin shoes, and during which we were pestered by a fresh swarm of miserable beggars, the wives and children of the stable servants. After this we passed another richly-carved, but ruinous and dirty gateway, where our guides, withdrawing a canvas screen, called out, in a sort of harsh chaunt, " Lo, the ornament of the world ! Lo, the asylum of the nations ! King of Kings ! The Emperor Acbar Shah! Just, fortunate, victorious...
Página 19 - While in the small apartment where I got rid of my shining garments, I was struck with its beautiful ornaments. It was entirely lined with white marble, inlaid with flowers and leaves of green serpentine, lapis lazuli, and blue and red porphyry: the flowers were of the best Italian style of workmanship, and evidently the labour of an artist of that country.
Página 270 - Kennery, under a noble arch, filled up with a sort of portico screen, in two stories of three intercolumniations below, and five above. In the front, but a little to the left, is the same kind of pillar as is seen at Kennery, though of larger dimensions, surmounted by three lions back to back. Within the portico, to the right and left, are three colossal figures, in alto relievo, of elephants, their faces looking towards the person who arrives in the portico, and their heads, tusks, and trunks, very...
Página 259 - Carli, where such an ornament, but of greater size, is likewise found, that a large gilt umbrella used to spring from it. This solid dome appears to be the usual symbol of Buddhist adoration, and, with its umbrella ornament, may be traced in the Shoo-Madoo of Pegu, and other more remote structures of the same faith.
Página 8 - Ratclifle library, in the centre of which lies, under a small raised slab, the unfortunate prince to whose memory this fine building is raised. In the angles are smaller apartments, where other branches of his family are interred. From the top of the building I was surprised to see that we had still ruins on every side ; and that, more particularly, to the westward and where old Indraput stood, the desolation apparently extended to a range of barren hills seven or eight miles off.
Página 258 - It is entered through a fine and lofty portico, having on its front, but a little to the left hand, a high detached octagonal pillar, surmounted by three lions seated back to back. On...
Página 6 - The ruins really extended as far as the eye could reach, and our track wound among them all the way. This was the seat of old Delhi, as founded by the Patan kings on the ruins of the still larger Hindoo city of Indraput, which lay chiefly in a western direction.
Página 16 - Elliott here bowed three times very low, in which we followed his example. This ceremony was repeated twice as we advanced up the steps of the pavilion, the heralds each time repeating the same expressions about their master's greatness. We then stood in a row on the righthand side of the throne, which is a sort of marble bedstead richly ornamented with gilding, and raised on two or three steps. Mr.
Página 75 - Deen, a celebrated saint, whose miracles are renowned all over India. The Emperor Acbar, great and wise man as he was, and suspected of placing little faith in the doctrines of Islam, made nevertheless a pilgrimage on foot to this place to implore, at the saint's tomb, the blessing of male offspring. The crowd of pilgrims who met us, or whom we overtook during the last three or four days, showed how much the shrine is still in fashion...