| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 páginas
...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.' The same all-grasping genius exhibits most striking... | |
| George Hanger - 1801 - 356 páginas
...Kensington Gardens, tell him that the age of chivalry is gone, and that of sophist ers, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of your...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened you with insult. When you speak of the cruelty and excesses committed in war, do not forget to say, that,... | |
| 1810 - 702 páginas
...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 conspicuous light... | |
| Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 páginas
...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, and calculators... | |
| Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 páginas
...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, " oeconomists, and calculators... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 páginas
...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, and calculators,... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 páginas
...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, and* calculators,... | |
| 1811 - 386 páginas
...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 calculators has... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 páginas
...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, cecouomists, and calculators,... | |
| Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1815 - 724 páginas
...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 embarrassment, £fc.... | |
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