 | 1822 - 694 pages
...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,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1821 - 734 pages
...times, speaks of its fall in these words — " The age of Chivalry is gone, — that of sopbisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." Burke, Letter on the French Revolution, p. 113. f De Sade, Vie de Petrarque, apud Godwin, Life of Chaucer,... | |
 | English essays - 1821 - 730 pages
...of its fall in these words—" The age of Chivalry is gone,— that of sophisters, oeconomists, anil calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." Burke, Letter on the French Revolution, p. 113. f De Sade, Vie de Petrarque, apud Godwin, Life of Chaucer,... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - Great Britain - 1822 - 584 pages
...BY J. IpGHTINGALE, One of the Authors of" the Beauties of England and Wales," Sf-c. " 1 thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards...her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone ! " BURKE. fLonHon: J. ROBINS AND CO. ALBION PRESS, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - 1822 - 640 pages
...NIGHTINGALE, One of the Authors of " the Beauties of England and Wales," SfC. IfC. " 1 thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards...her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone ! " BUREB. "Death is the port where all may refuge find. The end of labour, entry unto rest ; Death... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...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...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult." CHAPTER XI. Birth of a Daughter to Lord Byron. — Differences with his Lady. — She quits his Residence.... | |
 | John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 476 pages
...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...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult." CHAPTER XI. of a Daughter to Lord Byron. — Differences his Lady* — She quits his Residence. —... | |
 | Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...character.' Nearly a century ago, Burke declared ' the age of chivalry is gone ; the age of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.' Similarly Carlyle calls the eighteenth century ' An insincere world, a godless untruth of a world.... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 496 pages
...her in a nation of gallant теп— in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards...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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,... | |
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. 
