 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...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 have leaped from...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.' The same all-grasping genius exhibits most striking examples of the... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...revolution! and what heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult — but the age of chivalry is gone!" In the following simile, the conspicuous light in which the valour... | |
 | George Coleraine, George Hanger - Prostitution - 1801 - 356 pages
...gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers ; that you thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened you icilh insult. 168 When you speak of the cruelty and excesses committed in war, do not forget to... | |
 | George Hanger - Great Britain - 1801 - 356 pages
...gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers ; that you thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened you with insult. When you speak of the cruelty and excesses committed in war, do not forget to say,... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...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 have " leaped from...avenge even a " look that threatened her with insult. But the " age of chivalry is gone — that of sophisters-, " (Economists, and calculators has succeeded... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...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 have " leaped from...avenge even a " look that threatened her with insult. But the " age of chivalry is gone—that of sophisters, " oeconomists, and calculators has succeeded;... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men; in a nation of men of honour, and ot-cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...avenge even a look, that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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 have leaped from...scabbards to avenge even a- look that threatened her with insult—But the age of chivalry is gone.—That of sophisters, economists, and* calculators, has succeeded;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...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 have leaped from...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone. — That of sophisters, cecouomists, and calculators, has succeeded;... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - English fiction - 1815 - 724 pages
...lovely as the G nidus of Praxiteles.' IDA OF ATUE.VS. Page 149.— / thought ten thousand &c. — ' I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.' BURKE ox THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Pape 152. — In all the elegant embarrassment, £fc. — ' Her eyes,... | |
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I should have 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 have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with... 
