 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - India - 1841 - 652 pages
...birth, the high spirit and the romantic notions, so striking in the military class of that period. Their enthusiasm was kept up by the songs of their...glory or for love. They treated women with a respect un usual in the East ; and were guided, even towards their enemies, by rules of honour, which it was... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - India - 1903 - 480 pages
...striking in the military class of that period. Their enthusiasm was kept up by the MOHAMMAD GHORI 5 1 songs of their bards, and inflamed by frequent contests...rules of honour which it was disgraceful to violate.' With much of the chivalry, they had not the artificial sentiment of the knights of the ' Faerie Queene,'... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1906 - 360 pages
...birth, the high spirit, and the romantic notions so striking in the military class of that period. Their enthusiasm was kept up by the songs of their...respect unusual in the East, and were guided, even toward their enemies, by rules of honour which it was disgraceful to violate." With much of the chivalry,... | |
 | Simon Matthews Edwin Kempson - Hindustani language - 1912 - 362 pages
...of birth, the high spirit, and romantic notions 4 so striking in the military class of that period. Their enthusiasm was kept up by the songs of their bards, and inflamed by frequent contests 5 for glory or for love. They treated women with a respect unusual in the East ; and 6 were guided... | |
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... devotion. The sort of feudal system that prevailed among the Rajputs gave additional stability to this attachment, and all together produced the pride of birth, the high spirit, and the romantic notions so striking in the military class of that period.... 