 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...  William Pitt - Side 74af Lewis Sergeant - 1882 - 198 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 sider
...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...her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.' The same all-grasping genius exhibits most striking examples of the pathetic, the terrible, the sublime.... | |
 | 1810 - 702 sider
...revolution! and what heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...with insult — but the age of chivalry is gone!" In the following simile, the conspicuous light in which the valour of Hector is placed, demands a considerable... | |
 | George Hanger - 1801 - 356 sider
...gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers ; that you thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their 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,... | |
 | George Coleraine, George Hanger - 1801 - 356 sider
...gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers ; that you thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened you icilh insult. 168 When you speak of the cruelty and excesses committed in war, do not forget to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 sider
...which they had been in assured possession, in favour of wild and irrational expectations. MANNERS. BUT the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 sider
...irrational expectations. MANNERS. 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, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 sider
...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...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for " ever. Never, never more, shall we behold " that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that " proud submission,... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 sider
...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...threatened her with insult. But the " age of chivalry is gone—that of sophisters, " oeconomists, and calculators has succeeded; " and the glory of Europe... | |
 | Charles de Villers - 1805 - 516 sider
...The cities of Lombardy, and those on the * " But the age of chivalry is gone. — That of sophists, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 sider
...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...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that... | |
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