 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive,...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise — is jjone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of hon our, which felt a stain... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 pages
...shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive,...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like... | |
 | Hannah More - 1847 - 450 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 to true gallantry. Men are... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1847 - 678 pages
...spontaneous rank, that innate nobility which kings cannot give,* or parliaments take away.f " the nurge of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour that feels a stain like a wound, which inspires courage whilst it mitigates ferocity, which... | |
 | John Cumming - 1848 - 558 pages
...shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone." Even this, however, was but the beginning of the sanguinary outburst. The King was soon after... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 228 pages
...shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive...of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt... | |
 | 1848 - 524 pages
...shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank, and see that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive,...life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour which felt... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...— that proud submission—that dignified obedience—that subordination'of the heart, which keeps alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an...life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly spirit and heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone — that sensibility of principle — that chastity... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 pages
...we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex — that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive,...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone ! — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive,...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like... | |
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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... 
