 | John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...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 insult." CHAPTER XI. Birth of a Daughter to Lord Byron. — Differences with his Lady. — She quits his Residence.... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...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 insult." CHAPTER XI. Birth of a Daughter to Lord Byron. — Differences with his Lady. — She quits his Residence.... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 496 pages
...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...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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge their wrongs — but their age of chivalry is gone, that of sophisters, economists...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." But these illustrious men despaired not of the cause of Greece for they had seen the hour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from of the crown will be the sole nursery of statesmen....the court, it may at length take that of attending œconomists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...—in a natjpn of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened...That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succceeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that... | |
 | Clement Carlyon - Physicians - 1836 - 340 pages
...be no more — that of philosophers and of Christians will succeed, and the torch of superstition be extinguished for ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank, which is prodigal of its own virtue and its own happiness to invest a few with unholy splendours ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 554 pages
...men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the r that of sophisters, economists, and calailatorsjia.s_siicceeded ; nnd thru prlnry-_j>f F^rppp i«;... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1839 - 336 pages
...full of life, and splendour, and joy." I too, "thought that ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult." I too, alas! forgot that "the age of chivalry is gone." Greatly to Marables' annoyance, and in defiance... | |
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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... 
