 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 Seiten
...love, she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to see...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... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | 1810 - 702 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 Seiten
...she should ever be obliged " to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace " concealed in that bosom; little did I dream " that I should have lived to see...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,... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 Seiten
...she should ever be obliged " to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace " concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream " that I should have lived to see...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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 Seiten
...that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to see...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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 Seiten
...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...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;... | |
 | 1811 - 386 Seiten
...the sharp antidote against disgrace, concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that 1 shot/Id live to see such 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 their scabbards, to avenge... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 Seiten
...obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that 1 should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon...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... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1814 - 362 Seiten
...said O'Donnel, catching the enthusiasm, " did we then dream that we should have lived to have seen such disasters fallen upon her, in a nation of gallant...men, in a nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers.* " Give me the ring/' he cried, snatchBurke. ing it eagerly: " I cannot part with it, though I perish... | |
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Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived... 
