...imprisonment of Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution, that no one was man enough to avenge her: "But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."3 Burke's exclamation in praise of chivalry amounts to a defense of aristocracy against the...

...world government is to be brought into being but something like it, I suggest, will have to come about. The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists...succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. (Edmund Burke, eighteenth century) The trial by market everything must come to. (Robert Frost...

...and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision ... I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever ... All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the super-added ideas, furnished...

...France (1790), lamented the end of a once-glorious Europe, and the beginning of a petty bourgeois one: "The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which...

...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...insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone. — That of Reference to a sermon by Richard Price (i723-9i), "Discourse on the Love of our Country" (i789), to...

...to check the creeping pestilence of this indifference" (Low, Burns: The Critical Heritage, 345). 60. "I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone" (Burke, Reflections, 170). 61. Zizek, Tarrying with the Negative, 222. Chapter 3: Economies of National...

...as to build a modern abbey, or an English pagoda. Francis Jeffrey, reviewing Scott's Marmion, 18082 'The age of chivalry is gone - that of sophisters,...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.' The exclamation that launches this rhetorical climax is the best remembered of Edmund Burke's Reflections...

...(Penguin Classics: 19861, p. 1 70: '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...

...quite explicit that its stability was an effect of a deeper set of underlying causes. The famous lament ("But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.") that he issued immediately after describing how he had once seen Marie Antoinette, "glittering...

...should at any time find himself tempted to be cruel.""3 Pater might have been recalling Edmund Burke: "I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.""4 But where Burke would leap to his feet, Florian effects a subtle, sadomasochistic identification...