...their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult," and concluding mournfully that "the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters,...calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is vanished for ever").3 Yet the manlier virtues have been yoked countless times to the service of murder...

...disgrace concealed in that bosom! Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of...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,...

...defend our laws And ever give us cause To sing with heart and voice God save the King. EDMUND BURKE The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists,...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Edmund Burke (1729?-1797) was an Anglo-Irish political philosopher and statesman. He wielded his immense...

...imprisonment of Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution, that no one was man enough to avenge her: "But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."3 Burke's exclamation in praise of chivalry amounts to a defense of aristocracy against the...

...world government is to be brought into being but something like it, I suggest, will have to come about. The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists...succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. (Edmund Burke, eighteenth century) The trial by market everything must come to. (Robert Frost...

...and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision ... I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever ... All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished...

...disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did 1 dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.131 In his letter to Burke, Francis writes of this passage: In my opinion all that you say of...

...lived to see such 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...insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone. — That of Reference to a sermon by Richard Price (i723-9i), "Discourse on the Love of our Country" (i789), to...

...to check the creeping pestilence of this indifference" (Low, Burns: The Critical Heritage, 345). 60. "I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone" (Burke, Reflections, 170). 61. Zizek, Tarrying with the Negative, 222. Chapter 3: Economies of National...

...as to build a modern abbey, or an English pagoda. Francis Jeffrey, reviewing Scott's Marmion, 18082 'The age of chivalry is gone - that of sophisters,...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.' The exclamation that launches this rhetorical climax is the best remembered of Edmund Burke's Reflections...