 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1839 - 336 pages
...move ; "glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." I too, "thought that ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult." I too, alas! forgot that "the age of chivalry is gone." Greatly to Marables' annoyance, and in defiance... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, economists, and VOL. II. D calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, economists, and VOL. II. D calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 702 pages
...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...her " with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That " of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has suc" ceeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 738 pages
...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...her " with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That " of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has suc" ceeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...such disasters fallen upon her \ in a nation of gallant men', — | in a nation of men of hon'our, and of cavaliers,. | I thought ten thousand swords...have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a looA' | that threatened /ier with insult. | But the age of chivalry is gone,. | That of sophisters,... | |
 | 1841 - 752 pages
...receive £13 6s. 9d. for costs incurred.' Well and truly might Burke exclaim, were he now alive, ' the ' age of chivalry is gone, and the glory of Europe is departed ' for ever !' Just conceive of Mr. Spottiswoode now commencing an action against some Bibliopole... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 pages
...nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone ! " The food with which the royal family were supplied, was frequently so bad that they could not touch... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavar Hers. 1 . D!. 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... 
