 ... 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...  Burke, Select Works - Seite 83von Edmund Burke - 1898 - 712 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 Seiten
...concealed in that bosom ; 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 honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 Seiten
...disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters heaped upon her in a nation of gallant men ; in a nation...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 Seiten
...lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 Seiten
...concealed in that bosom ; 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 honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
 | John Cumming - 1848 - 558 Seiten
...disgrace concealed in that bosom ! little did I dream that I should live to see such disasters fall upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers ! Methought ten thousand swords must have leapt from their scabbards, to avenge even a look... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 Seiten
...in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should hâve lived to see such disasters fallen upon lier in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of...and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must hâve leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened lier with insuit. But thé... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 Seiten
...disgrace concealed in that bosom little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her in a nation of gallant men — in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...concealed in that bosom ; 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 honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1849 - 367 Seiten
...proofs of courage. These challengers were the young cavaliers of whom Burke thought that 10,000 of their swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened their Queen with insult. Yet these were the very men who first fled from danger, deserted... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 Seiten
...concealed in that bosom ; 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...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the... | |
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