... 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
| Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 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... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 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...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... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters follow upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of...swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophistcrs, economists,... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters follow upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of...honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords mnst have leaped from their scabbards to avenge a look that threatened her with insult. But the age... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 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 honour and of cavaliers. 1 thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened... | |
| John Cumming - 1851 - 592 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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 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... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 Seiten
...disgrace 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, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and... | |
| Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 228 Seiten
...would our learned Grecians say to this specimen of the Oaristus 1 — ED. joy." I too " thought that ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult." I too, alas ! forgot that " the age of chivalry is gone." Greatly to Marables' annoyance, and in defiance... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 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... | |
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