 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...  The Oxford Book of English Prose - Page 467by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1092 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone/ The same all-grasping genius exhibits most striking examples of the pathetic, the terrible, the sublime.... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...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...with insult — but the age of chivalry is gone!" In the following simile, the conspicuous light in which the valour of Hector is placed, demands a considerable... | |
 | 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..." age of chivalry is gone — that of sophisters-, " (Economists, and calculators has succeeded ; " and the glory of Europe is extinguished for " ever.... | |
 | 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...threatened her with insult. But the " age of chivalry is gone—that of sophisters, " oeconomists, and calculators has succeeded; " and the glory of Europe... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...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...But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...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...the age of chivalry is gone. — That of sophisters, cecouomists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - English fiction - 1815 - 724 pages
...lovely as the G nidus of Praxiteles.' IDA OF ATUE.VS. Page 149.— / thought ten thousand &c. — ' I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.' BURKE ox THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Pape 152. — In all the elegant embarrassment, £fc. — ' Her eyes,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her in a nation of gallant men — in a nation...But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is:extinguished for ever. Never,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...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. I thought...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;... | |
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