 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, economists, and VOL. II. D calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, economists, and VOL. II. D calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 702 pages
...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..." of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has suc" ceeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for " ever. Never, never more, shall we behold... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 738 pages
...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..." of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has suc" ceeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for " ever. Never, never more, shall we behold... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...fallen upon her \ in a nation of gallant men', — | in a nation of men of hon'our, and of cavaliers,. | I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a looA' | that threatened /ier with insult. | But the age of chivalry is gone,. | That of sophisters,... | |
 | George Cruikshank - English literature - 1841 - 390 pages
...from Burke's .Reflections on the Revolution in France, which we will suppose to be thus printed : — But the " age of chivalry " is gone ; that of sophisters,...the " glory of Europe " is extinguished for ever. The untaught grace of life, the " cheap defence of nations *," the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic... | |
 | Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, Samuel Laman Blanchard - 1842 - 366 pages
...from Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, which we will suppose to be thus printed : — But the " age of chivalry " is gone ; that of sophisters,...the " glory of Europe " is extinguished for ever. The unbought grace of life, the "cheap defence of nations*," the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic... | |
 | George Cruikshank - English literature - 1842 - 366 pages
...we will suppose to be thus printed : — But the " age of chivalry " is gone ; that of sophistere, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the " glory of Europe " is extinguished for ever. The un bo ugh t grace of life, the "cheap defence of nations*," the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 pages
...nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone ! " The food with which the royal family were supplied, was frequently so bad that they could not touch... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...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...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,... | |
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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... 
