| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...modern literature. " The age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, calculators, and economists has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished...ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex ; that proud submission ; that dignified obedience ; that subordination of... | |
| Isabel Goldsmid - 1839 - 336 pages
..."glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." I too, "thought that ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult." I too, alas! forgot that "the age of chivalry is gone." Greatly to Marables' annoyance, and in defiance... | |
| George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...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...chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, economists, and VOL. II. D calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never... | |
| George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...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...chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, economists, and VOL. II. D calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never... | |
| John Adolphus - 1841 - 738 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..." of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has suc" ceeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for " ever. Never, never more, shall we behold... | |
| John Adolphus - 1841 - 702 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..." of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has suc" ceeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for " ever. Never, never more, shall we behold... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 626 pages
...age of chivalry, (says Burke) is gone; that of sophists, economists, and calculators has commenced; 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 dignified obedience, that subordination of the... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...in a nation of gallant men', — | in a nation of men of hon'our, and of cavaliers,. | I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a looA' | that threatened /ier with insult. | But the age of chivalry is gone,. | That of sophisters,... | |
| Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, Samuel Laman Blanchard - 1842 - 366 pages
...from Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, which we will suppose to be thus printed : — But the " age of chivalry " is gone ; that of sophisters,...the " glory of Europe " is extinguished for ever. The unbought grace of life, the "cheap defence of nations*," the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic... | |
| George Cruikshank - 1841 - 390 pages
...from Burke's .Reflections on the Revolution in France, which we will suppose to be thus printed : — But the " age of chivalry " is gone ; that of sophisters,...the " glory of Europe " is extinguished for ever. The untaught grace of life, the " cheap defence of nations *," the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic... | |
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