 | 1821 - 362 ページ
...tea 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...ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyally to rank and sex, that prond submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the... | |
 | 1822 - 694 ページ
...contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall 1 * * * But the age of chivalry is gone 1 That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever !' — Reflections on the French Revolution. as the illustration given by Paine, when he said Mr. Burke,... | |
 | 1836 - 496 ページ
...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...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever! Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission... | |
 | 1826 - 438 ページ
...thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge their wrongs — but their age of chivalry is gone, that of sophisters, economists...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." But these illustrious men despaired not of the cause of Greece for they had seen the hour... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 ページ
...neve/ more shall we behold that gi loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that iliu'iiili'-d ; I al ex«Iti'd freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly ;-eiiliineiit... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 ページ
...and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never moro, he side oven in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The nnbought grace of lifo, the cheap defence... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1836 - 588 ページ
...scenes proper only to the page of a romance; — it is the reality so beautifully described by Burke; "that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ; that untaught grace of life, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1837 - 434 ページ
...embodying " the generous loyalty to rank and sex, the proud submission, the dignified obedience, and that subordination of the heart which kept alive,...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1837 - 428 ページ
...embodying " the generous loyalty to rank and sex, the proud submission, the dignified obedience, and that subordination of the heart which kept alive,...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which... | |
 | 1838 - 716 ページ
...highest and most glorious guerdon an honored knight could receive. Every ceremony tended to exalt " that generous loyalty to rank and sex — that proud...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle — that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound — -which... | |
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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 calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished... 
