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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century - Page 588
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Self-culture in Reading, Speaking, and Conversation: Designed for the Use of ...

William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her, in a nation of gallant...succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission,...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...against disgrace concealed in that bosom f little did I dream that I should have lived to see such insult.3 But the age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.—But the age of chivalry is gone. 1 RIGHTS OF MAN. If civil society be made for the advantage...
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...published in 1594. To a close sborn sbeep God gives wind by measure. Jacida Prudenttim. GEORGE HERUERT gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers....her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. Speech at Bristol on declining the Poll. 1780. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,...threatened her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone.1 RIGHTS OF MAN. tf civil society he made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which...
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Memorable Scenes in French History: From the Era of Cardinal Richelieu to ...

Samuel Mosheim Smucker - France - 1857 - 398 pages
...glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy ! I thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a...sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and tho glory of Europe is extinguished forever." The kindness and generosity of her nature, which often...
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Progressive Exercises in Rhetorical Reading ...

Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 152 pages
...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 ten thousand swords must...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,...threatened her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone.1 RIGHTS OF MAN. If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 48

American literature - 1859 - 620 pages
...endowed with personal charms more than sufficient to pass for beauty on a throne. siastically exclaimed, "I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult," he forgot that the first insult had been perpetrated, and the ground laid for the most galling of the...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 48

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 618 pages
...endowed with personal churras more than sufficient to pass for beauty ou a throne. siastically exclaimed, "I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult," he forgot that the first insult had been perpetrated, and the ground laid for the most galling of the...
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