 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 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...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... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Education - 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 - Elocution - 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...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... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...|| of gallant men;\ in a nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers. I thought || ten thousand sword a must have leaped || from their scabbards, to avenge...|| even a look that threatened her || with insult. But the age || of chivalry That of aopklsten, \\ economists || and calculators, has succeeded, and... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...heaped 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 Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 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...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... | |
 | John Cumming - 1848 - 558 pages
...gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers ! Methought ten thousand swords must have leapt from their 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 ; and... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...fall 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...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult — but the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded;... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1849 - 708 pages
...disasters fallen upon her, in a nation of gallant men — in a nation of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophists, economists, and... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - France - 1849 - 367 pages
...proofs of courage. These challengers were the young cavaliers of whom Burke thought that 10,000 of their swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened their Queen with insult. Yet these were the very men who first fled from danger, deserted... | |
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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... 
