 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 Seiten
...should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand...leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone/ The same all-grasping genius exhibits... | |
 | 1810 - 702 Seiten
...revolution! and what heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult — but the age of chivalry is gone!" In the following simile, the... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 Seiten
...have lived to see such disasters " fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in " a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. " I thought ten thousand...leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a " look that threatened her with insult. But the " age of chivalry is gone — that of sophisters-, " (Economists,... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 Seiten
...have lived to see such disasters " fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in " a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. " I thought ten thousand...leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a " look that threatened her with insult. But the " age of chivalry is gone—that of sophisters, " oeconomists,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 Seiten
...should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand...leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 Seiten
...see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,—in a nation of men of honour and.of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have...leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a- look that threatened her with insult—But the age of chivalry is gone.—That of sophisters, economists,... | |
 | 1811 - 386 Seiten
...disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men; in a nation of men of honour, and ot-cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look, that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 Seiten
...should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of' cavaliers. I thought ten thousand...leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone. — That of sophisters, cecouomists,... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1815 - 724 Seiten
...lovely as the G nidus of Praxiteles.' IDA OF ATUE.VS. Page 149.— / thought ten thousand &c. — ' I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.' BURKE ox THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Pape 152. — In all the elegant... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 Seiten
...should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand...leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone. — That of sophisters, ceconomists,... | |
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... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look... 
