 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...  English Prose (1137-1890) - Page 254edited by - 1909 - 544 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.... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...and that fall ! Little did I dream when she added' titles of veneration to those of enthusiastick, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be...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,... | |
 | 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...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to mnk and sex; that proud submission,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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...calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is:extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyality to rank and sex,-—... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 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, ceconomists, 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;... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought tea thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyally to rank and sex, that prond submission,... | |
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