 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded ;... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...disasters 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 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...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 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...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... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...disasters 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 - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought red timid in his proceedings, the service of the crown...the sole nursery of statesmen. Among the frolics But the age of chivalry is gone : that of sophisters, œconomists, and calculators has succeeded ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ugh other channels, and in other mediums, that is,...gold, and silver directly brought to Europe, and i But the age of chivalry is gone: that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...fallen 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...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succceeded ;... | |
 | United States - 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... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1839 - 336 pages
...in which she was about to move ; "glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." I too, "thought that ten thousand swords must...Greatly to Marables' annoyance, and in defiance of Miss Sharpe's sneers, Viola had insisted that I alone should officiate at her toilette on that memorable... | |
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... little did I dream that 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... 
