 | James Grant Duff - 1826 - 618 oldal
...afterwards, on being congratulated, mournfully replied, in allusion to the name he had given the fort, " The den is taken but the lion is slain ; we have gained...fort, but, alas ! I. have lost Tannajee Maloosray !" tier's body to indiscriminate burial, without the funeral rites, is considered base in the highest... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1830 - 398 oldal
...mournfully away from such as offered their congratulations on his victory. " The den* is taken," said he, " but the lion is slain ; we have gained a fort, but alas I have lost Tannajee Maloosray." The capture of Singurh was soon followed by other operations, all of them equally honourable to Sivajee's... | |
 | 1832 - 618 oldal
...mournfully away from such as offered their congratulations on his victory. " The den* is taken," said he, " but the lion is slain ; we have gained a fort, but, alas ! I have * The word Siugurh means a Lion's den. lost Tannajee Maloosray." — Family Library, No. XV., Gleig's... | |
 | 1845 - 616 oldal
...an instant the tide was turned and with a deafening shout of their battle cry, " Ilur Hur Mahadco," they returned to the charge and were soon in possession...Sivajee ; again, fort after fort fell before his arms or finesses. The city of Surat (October 1670) was again plundered ; and for three days, at the head of... | |
 | 1848 - 618 oldal
...will you leave your father's corpse to be tossed into a pit by Mhars ?" He added that the rope ladders were destroyed, and that now was their time to prove...Sivajee ; again, fort after fort fell before his arms or finesses. The city of Surat (October 1670) was again plundered ; and for three days, at the head of... | |
 | 1862 - 756 oldal
...his escape from Delhi, at Mutra; and when congratulated on the success of his arms, he exclaimed " The Den is taken, but the Lion is slain. We have gained...Fort, but, alas! I have lost Tannajee Maloosray." One month after this, Sivajee, having enlisted in his service the Rhamoosee inhabitants of the surrounding... | |
 | Katharine Blanche Guthrie - 1877 - 338 oldal
...was killed, and upon hearing of the misfortune, his master is said to have exclaimed, " Alas ! alas ! the den is taken, but the lion is slain ! We have gained a fort, but I have lost Tanaji Malusre !" Upon this occasion each private soldier was rewarded by the gift of a... | |
 | James Grant Duff - 1878 - 766 oldal
...afterwards, on being congratulated, mournfully replied, in allusion to the name he had given the fort, " The den is taken but the lion is slain ; we have gained a fort, but, alas II have lost Tannajco Maloosray !" Sivajee, though he seldom bestowed pecuniary gifts on the Mawulees,... | |
 | 1882 - 766 oldal
...deafening shout of their battle cry, " Hur Hur Mahadeo," they returned to the charge and were sbon in possession of the fort. Of the Mawulees, nearly...Sivajee ; again, fort after fort fell before his arms or finesses. The city of Surat (October 1670) was again plundered ; and for three days, at the head of... | |
 | James Grant Duff - 1912 - 510 oldal
...afterwards, on being congratulated mournfully replied, in allusion to the name he had given the fort, " The den is taken but the lion is slain ; we have gained...alas ! I have lost Tannajee Maloosray !" Sivajee, though he seldom bestowed pecuniary gifts on the Mawulees, on this occasion gave every private soldier... | |
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Mahadeo," they returned to the charge and were soon in possession of the Fort. Of the Mawulees, nearly onethird were killed or wounded, and five hundred of the Rajputs with their commander were found dead or wounded. Sivajee was hardly consoled for the... 
