 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...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...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, — that sensibility of principle, — that chastity of honour, which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...passions forge their fetters. MANNERS. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt... | |
 | Hannah More - English literature - 1830 - 530 pages
...less effect, to raise the spirit of true chivalry, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the false. " The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! " * * We cannot pass over the brilliant passage of Mr. Burke, of which this is... | |
 | Hannah More - 1830 - 620 pages
...less effect, to raise the spirit of true chivalry, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the false. ' The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! * Selfishness is scarcely more opposite to true religion than tme gallantry. Men... | |
 | Hannah More - 1830 - 528 pages
...less effect, to raise the spirit of true chivalry, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the false. " The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! " * * We cannot pass over the brilliant passage of Mr. Burke, of which this is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an ex«Iti'd t him to hang «11 his dogs. Then; was also difficulty of getting victuals to carry t ;-eiiliineiit and heroic enterprise is gone 1 It is gone t hat sensibility of principle, that chastity... | |
 | Hannah More - 1832 - 564 pages
...less effect, to raise the spirit of true chivalry, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the falsa. 1 The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !'* Selfishness is scarcely more opposite to true religion than true gallantry.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...kept alive, oven in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The nnbought grace of lifo, ss ; and that all those which he was enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 436 pages
...spirit of true chivalry as much as Cervantes Lad done to lay the false. " The unbought grace of lit'.-, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone !" * * We cannot pass over the brilliant passage of Mr. Burke, of which this is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone: that of sophisters, economists, enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensihility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt... | |
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Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace... 
