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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. "
The British Prose Writers...: Burke's reflections - Page 105
1821
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George Cruikshank's Omnibus

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...
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History of Our Own Times, Volume 1

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...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a ...

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...
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

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...
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Miscellaneous Writings of George W. Burnap ... Collected and Revised by 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...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

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,...
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The rhetorical reader, consisting of choice specimens of oratorical ...

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...
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The Duty of American Women to Their Country

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...
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The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds ...

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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