| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 pages
...dream that, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote...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... | |
| Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 pages
...that when she added titles H '2 " of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, " respectful love, she should ever be obliged " to carry the sharp antidote...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 pages
...dream, that when she added titles " of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, " respectful love, she should ever be obliged " to carry the sharp antidote...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,... | |
| Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion, that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream,...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... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...did I dream that, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respect* ful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the...against disgrace concealed in that bosom ;—little did j[ dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,—in... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did 1 dream, that when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic,...concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that 1 should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of... | |
| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Ireland - 1814 - 362 pages
...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... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...must I have, to contemplate, without emotion, that elevation and that fall. Little did I dream that, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic,...dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her in a nation of gallant men — in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...have, to contemplate, without emotion, that elevation and that fall. , ' .. . Little did I dream that, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic,...bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to sec such disasters fall upon her in a nation of gallant men—in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers.... | |
| Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream that, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic,...concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that 1 should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of... | |
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