 | 1826 - 438 pages
...thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge their wrongs — but their age of chivalry is gone, that of sophisters, economists...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." But these illustrious men despaired not of the cause of Greece for they had seen the hour... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 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...ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, — that proud submission, — that dignified obedience, — that subordination... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 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...ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the... | |
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that should threaten her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone !* Lord Byron has made the original... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten timid in his proceedings, the service of the crown...the court, it may at length take that of attending œconomists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 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...ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...upon her in a nation of gallant men, —in a natjpn of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards...That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succceeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that... | |
 | 1838 - 540 pages
...quarters, until the appearance of this libel, intact by suspicion, and where ' ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened with such insult.' But we may calm our irritation and our fears. The " imperious'* nature of the case... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pages
...but he is equally wrong whenever chivalry comes into question. ' The age of chivalry,' said Burke, ' is gone ! That of sophisters, economists, and calculators...ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 pages
...fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards...even a look that threatened her with insult. But the r that of sophisters, economists, and calailatorsjia.s_siicceeded ; nnd thru prlnry-_j>f F^rppp i«;... | |
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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. 
