 | 1844 - 602 pages
...Scottish Martyrs, and other Poems. I3y JAMES G. SMALL, 12mo, pp. 276. Edinburgh: W. Whyte and Co. " THE age of chivalry is gone, and the glory of Europe is departed for ever !" So said Edmund Burke ; and the orator's lament is the philanthropist's rejoicing.... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1845 - 404 pages
...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, in a nation of men of honor...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, economists and calculators, has succeeded : and the glory of Europe is extinguished... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should live to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men ; in a nation of men of honor...her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...lived to 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...her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 pages
...lived to 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...her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...see'n such disasters fallen-uponher/ in a nation of gallant-men, — in a n'ation of/ me'n-of-honour/ and of caval'iers. I thought ten thousand swo'rds/ must have le'aped/ from their scab'bards/ to have aven'ged/ even a loAok, that threatened heAr with i'nsult. — But the age of c'hivalry is gon'e.... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - 1845 - 188 pages
...of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult." Look, now, through those prison bars. There, pale and mournful, upon a pallet of straw, rests one for... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 pages
...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, in a nation of men of honor...her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...bosom ; little || did I dream that I should have lived || to see such disasters |j fallen upon her in a nation || of gallant men;\ in a nation of men of...honor, and of cavaliers. I thought || ten thousand sword a must have leaped || from their scabbards, to avenge || even a look that threatened her || with... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 pages
...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, in a nation of men of honor...her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished... | |
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... little did I dream, that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look... 
