 | George Walker - 2004 - 396 Seiten
...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...But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, œconomists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,... | |
 | Jenny Davidson - 2004 - 256 Seiten
...the lament for Marie Antoinette: But the age of chivalry is gone. - That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe...never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which... | |
 | Carleton University - 2004 - 596 Seiten
...cosmopolitanism. At the end of the eighteenth century, the English political philosopher Edmund Burke moaned that "the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." How wrong he was! The age of chivalry was just beginning, and "economists and calculators"... | |
 | William Safire - 2004 - 1168 Seiten
...disasters 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, to avenge even n look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists,... | |
 | Allan Conrad Christensen - 2004 - 276 Seiten
...Edmund Burke had sadly proclaimed, "the age of chivalry is gone.— That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever," Bulwer anticipates a restoration and embellishes it in the light of a more poetic, romanticized age.... | |
 | Lawrence E. Cahoone - 2010 - 248 Seiten
...to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, and which, by a bland... | |
 | Dino Franco Felluga - 2005 - 230 Seiten
...upon [Marie Antoinette] 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...economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of England is extinguished for ever. (73) In fact, the age of chivalry was just in the process of being... | |
 | Robert Gibson - 2004 - 336 Seiten
...cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords would have leapt from their scabbards to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. In just such plangent tones, Ronsard had called upon his young fellow-countrymen to ride to the rescue... | |
 | Hansjörg Bay, Kai Merten - 2006 - 674 Seiten
...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...with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone. (126f.)49 Was für eine Revolution. Burkes Bedauern, das ist angesichts der komplementären Szenen... | |
 | Samuel Agnew Schreiner - 2005 - 340 Seiten
...to see such disasters fall upon her in a nation of gallant men; a nation of men of honor, cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry has gone.' " Curiously, the only medical man to examine Mary Lincoln's case in retrospect and in depth... | |
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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped 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 the glory of Europe is extinguished... 
