mid Turan's mountain-snows, Pure as his source, awhile young Ganges flows ; Through flowery meads his loitering way pursues, And quaffs with gentle lip the nectar'd dews; Till, swoln by many a tributary tide, His waters wash some tall pagoda's side :... The Classical Journal - Page 3721819Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...mountain-snows, Pure as his source, awhile yonng Ganges flows ; Through flowery meads his loitering way pursues, And quaffs with gentle lip the nectar'd...main, Drinks deep pollution from each tainted plain.' p. 3. In a poem of such great merit we are unwilling to descend to the littleness of verbal criticism... | |
| James Johnson - Voyages and travels - 1807 - 430 pages
...nectar'd dews ; Then broad and rough, 'mid rocks unknown to-day, Through tangled woods, where tvgcrs prowl for prey, He foams along; and rushing to the main, Drinks deep pollution from each tainted plain." WUAXGHAM. Having dropt do\vn to Saugur roads, in order to collect the homeward bound Indiamen ; we... | |
| James Johnson - Bioclimatology - 1815 - 564 pages
...; Then broad and rough, through wilds unknown to day, Through woods and swamps, where tigers prowl for Prey, He foams along ; and rushing to the main, Drinks deep pollution from each tainted plain. I have remarked, that the ground springs a little near the sea, and by resisting the progress of the... | |
| Christianity - 1825 - 628 pages
...mountain-snows, Pure as his source, awhile young Ganges flows ; Through flowery meads his loitering way pursues, And quaffs with gentle lip the nectar'd...main, Drinks deep pollution from each tainted plain. In speaking of the learning and civilization of the ancient Indians, he begins with medical botany,... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 648 pages
...mountain-snows, Pure as his source, awhile young Ganges flows ; Through flowery meads his loitering way pursues, And quaffs with gentle lip the nectar'd...main, Drinks deep pollution from each tainted plain. In speaking of the learning and civilization of the ancient Indians, he begins with medical botany,... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1825 - 638 pages
...Till, swoln by many a tnbutary tide, His waters wash some tall pagoda's side : Then broad and roxigh, 'mid rocks unknown to day, Through tangled woods where...main, Drinks deep pollution from each tainted plain. In speaking of the learning and civilization of the ancient Indians, he begins with medical botany,... | |
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