 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 Seiten
...and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, and ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1848 - 394 Seiten
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." Little... | |
 | 1848 - 524 Seiten
...defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity. which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half of its evil by losing all its grossness."... | |
 | 1848 - 588 Seiten
...manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ;" that, we have lost " that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity ;." — may we not, — instead of joining in this eloquent lament, which the circumstances Burke was... | |
 | 1848 - 816 Seiten
...'defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiments — is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 Seiten
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic entreprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by loosing ail its grossness. EDMUND... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...of nations, the nurse Ll_ of manly sentiments, is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 Seiten
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. vni... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 Seiten
...itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom . Chivalry, according to him, was that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its e vil by losing all its grossness. "... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 Seiten
...heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone ! — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain, like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness."... | |
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It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all... 
