 | Babur (Emperor of Hindustan) - Asia, Central - 1826 - 538 pages
...companions in arms he always speaks with the frank gaiety of a soldier; and it is a relief to the reader, in the midst of the pompous coldness of Asiatic history,...us that he wept, for the playmate of his boyhood. Indeed, an uncommon portion of good nature and good humour runs through all his character, and even... | |
 | 1827 - 602 pages
...arms, he always speaks with the frank gayety of a soldier ; and it is a relief to the reader, in die midst of the pompous coldness of Asiatic history,...us that he wept, for the playmate of his boyhood. Indeed, an uncommon portion of good nature and good humour runs through all his character; and, even... | |
 | 1827 - 576 pages
...a soldier; and it is a B ef to the reader, in the midst of the pompous coldness of Asiatic hist ry, to find a king who can weep for days, and tell us that he wept, for t playmate of his boyhood. Indeed, an uncommon portion of good t 'ire and good humour runs through... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1828 - 550 pages
...companions in arms he always speaks with the frank gaiety of a soldier; and it is a relief to the reader, in the midst of the pompous coldness of Asiatic history,...tell us that he wept for the playmate of his boyhood. Indeed, an uncommon portion of good nature and good humour runs through all his character, and even... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Africa - 1828 - 374 pages
...arms, he always speaks with the frank gayety of a soldier ; and it is a relief to the reader, in tin; midst of the pompous coldness of Asiatic history,...tell us that he wept for the playmate of his boyhood. Indeed, an uncommon portion of good nature and good humour runs through all his character ; and, even... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Voyages and travels - 1830 - 458 pages
...companions in arms, he always speaks with the frank gayety of a soldier ; and it is a relief to the reader, in the midst of the pompous coldness of Asiatic history,...tell us that he wept for the playmate of his boyhood. Indeed, an uncommon portion of good nature and good humour runs through all his character ; and, even... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1850 - 222 pages
...excesses into which his social temperament helped to draw him. " It is a relief," says Mr. Erskine, " in the midst of the pompous coldness of Asiatic history,...can weep for days, and tell us that he wept for the companion of his boyhood." And Mr. Elphinstone, when citing this remark, adds — " He [Baber] speaks... | |
 | William Erskine - India - 1854 - 612 pages
...grandeur had neither blunted the delicacy of his taste, nor diminished his sensibility to the enjoyments of nature and imagination. ' It is a relief,' says...mother and female relations, as if he had never quitted BOOK in. their fireside ; and his friends make almost as great a figure in the personal part of his... | |
 | John Garrett - India - 1865 - 366 pages
...It is a relief," says Mr. Ersldne, " in the midst of the pompous coldness of Asiatic history, to fmd a king who can weep for days, and tell us that he wept for the playmate of his boyhood." His mother and female relations are mentioned with as much interest as if he had never left their fireside... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - India - 1866 - 1152 pages
...possession of power and grandeur had neither blunted m>? delicacy of his taste, nor diminished the sensibility to the enjoyment of nature and imagination....relations as if he had never quitted their fireside, and In* friends make almost as great a figure in the personal part of his narrative as he does himself.... | |
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Of his companions in arms he always speaks with the frank gaiety of a soldier; and it is a relief to the reader, in the midst of the pompous coldness of Asiatic history, to find a king who can weep for days, and tell us that he wept, for the playmate... 
