An address delivered in King's college, London, introductory to a course of lectures on the languages and literature of AsiaParbury, Allen and Company Leadenhall Street, and Fellowes, Ludgate Hill, 1835 - 67 strani |
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affinities ancient applied Arabia Arabic Artaxerxes Asiatic Assam Assamese átma B'áshá Bengal Bengálí Bruj Burmese Cábul calamus scriptorius Calcutta called Carey cát Chinese colloquial corruption culmus d'ermma East empire English epithet Europe European expressed Felix formed German Grammar Greek guage hand dast Hindee Hindoos Hindu Hindustani idea implies India Indo-Chinese Indus instance intercourse Italian J. L. Cox Khámti king Kistna labours language languages of Asia Latin latter lish literally literature Magadha Mahommedan means mixed language Mogul Munipoor nations natives Notes observes orghanoon Oriental original Persian Persian Psalm place of skulls poetry Prácrita pronounced province remark sacred sacred language Sanscrit Sanscrit and Arabic scholar scriptures scrit sense Shan Siam Siamese signifies Sir William Jones South Behar speech spoken Syria Támul Tartars term tion tongues traced translated Transoxania tributary to Ava Turkish Urdoo Védas whence words write است اور بيا كي کي مين نظم هي
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Stran 47 - SWEET maid, if thou would'st charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck infold ; That rosy cheek, that lily hand, • Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand.
Stran 40 - While sparkling cups delight our eyes, Be gay; and scorn the frowns of age. What cruel answer have I heard ! And yet, by heaven, I love thee still: Can aught be cruel from thy lip ? Yet say, how fell that bitter word From lips which streams of sweetness fill, Which...
Stran 11 - In Arabia, as well as in Greece, the perfection of language outstripped the refinement of manners ; and her speech could diversify the fourscore names of honey, the two hundred of a serpent, the five hundred of a lion, the thousand of a sword, at a time when this copious dictionary was intrusted to the memory of an illiterate people.
Stran 20 - They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Stran 56 - In a country so remote from /399/ all connection with European Artists, he has been obliged to charge himself with all the various occupations of the Metallurgist, the Engraver, the Founder and the Printer. To the merit of invention, he was compelled to add the application of personal labour. With a rapidity unknown in Europe, he surmounted all the obstacles which necessarily clog the first rudiments of a difficult art, as well as the disadvantages of solitary experiment...
Stran 23 - SELF is that conscious, thinking thing, which is sensible or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for itself as far as that consciousness extends.
Stran 56 - European artists, he has been obliged to charge himself with all the various occupations of the Metallurgist, the Engraver, the Founder, and the Printer. To the merit of invention he was compelled to add the application of personal labour. With a rapidity unknown in Europe, he surmounted all the obstacles which necessarily clog the first rudiments of a difficult art, as well as the disadvantages of solitary experiment ; and has thus singly on the first effort exhibited his work in a state of perfection...
Stran 56 - Governor-General prevailed upon Mr. Wilkins, a gentleman who has been some years in the India Company's Civil Service in Bengal, to undertake a set of Bengali types.
Stran 63 - Spain introduced the gallant custom of serenading their mistresses, on which occasion, not only the words of their songs, but the airs, and even the colour of their habits, were expressive of the triumph of the fortunate, or the despair of the rejected lover. The Kitar — whence our guitar, from the Spanish guitarra — was their favourite instrument. — Richardson. The idea expressed in the first stanza of this serenade — the comparison of the eye of his sleeping mistress to a sheathed sword...
Stran 18 - Arabic tongue is blended with the Persian in so singular a manner, that one period often contains both languages, wholly distinct from each other in expression and idiom, but perfectly united in sense and construction.