| George Cruikshank - 1842 - 366 pages
...we will suppose to be thus printed : — But the " age of chivalry " is gone ; that of sophistere, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the " glory of Europe " is extinguished for ever. The un bo ugh t grace of life, the "cheap defence of nations*," the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 pages
...nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone ! " The food with which the royal family were supplied, was frequently so bad that they could not touch... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavar Hers. 1 thought ten loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the... | |
| Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 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... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 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... | |
| George Washington Burnap - 1845 - 366 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...ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 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,...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,... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...swo'rds/ must have le'aped/ from their scab'bards/ to have aven'ged/ even a loAok, that threatened heAr with i'nsult. — But the age of c'hivalry is gon'e....Ne'ver, never mo're, shall we beho'ld/ that generous lo'yalty to r'ank and se'x, — that pr'oud submission, — that di'gnified obe'dience, — that subordination... | |
| Catharine Esther Beecher - 1845 - 188 pages
...of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult." Look, now, through those prison bars. There, pale and mournful, upon a pallet of straw, rests one for... | |
| George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 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...! Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the... | |
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