 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 Seiten
...love, 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 to see...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... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 Seiten
...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...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.' The same all-grasping genius exhibits most striking examples... | |
 | 1810 - 702 Seiten
...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...scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult — but the age of chivalry is gone!" In the following simile, the conspicuous light in which... | |
 | Joseph Weber - 1805 - 552 Seiten
...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 to see...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 Seiten
...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 to see...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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 Seiten
...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 to see...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... | |
 | 1811 - 386 Seiten
...the sharp antidote against 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 of honour, and ot-cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 Seiten
...ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote 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 a nation of men of honour and.of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1814 - 362 Seiten
...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... | |
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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 that... 
