 | James Rush - 1855 - 582 pages
...of principle | that charity of honor | which felt a stain | like a wound | which inspired courage j whilst it mitigated ferocity | which ennobled whatever it touched | and under which | vice itself | lost | half its evil | by losing all its grossness. | * The agreeable effect of variety... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...spirit of an exalted freedom ! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
 | Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 152 pages
...the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone!...which ennobled whatever it touched; and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.—Burke. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. 786. Martial... | |
 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 pages
...the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness." The brutal assault of the mob on the... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 pages
...fled. FS 5. The lamb tly riot doom'd to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would lie skip and play ? CS 6. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever at touched, and under -which vice lost half its... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 pages
...the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone!...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...argument by quoting Edmund Burke on the sad decline from older standards of moral and aesthetic taste: "It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half its... | |
 | Edmund Burke, J. G. A. Pocock - 1987 - 294 pages
...the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.1" The revival of romance was inseparable... | |
 | David Duff - 1994 - 304 pages
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.' 1 9 James Boulton, in his account of... | |
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It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all... 
