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" 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... "
Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta ... queen of France and Navarre, tr. by R.C. Dallas - Page 98
by Joseph Weber - 1805
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 pages
...just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy. . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see...thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from 1 Quid velil et possit rerum concordia discors (What tlie discordant harmony of circumstances would...
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An Introduction to the Study of Rhetoric: Lessons in Phraseology ...

Helen Josephine Robins - 1903 - 340 pages
...present infinitive ; eg — Incorrect Form. Little did I dream that I should have lived to have seen such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant...thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to have avenged even a look that threatened her with insult. I am not likely ever to have the feeling...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - 1906 - 1198 pages
...star full of life and splendour and joy. . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see snch disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,...thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from > Quid veut et possit rerum concent!» dtscors (What the discordant harmonv of circumstances would...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastie, distant, respectful love, that and stepped on with pride Over men's pity ; • Left...quoth he, "thou keepest furled? Show me their shaping, scabbe rds to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone....
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English Literature: With Illustrations from Poetry and Prose

Geraldine Emma Hodgson - 1923 - 328 pages
...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...cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leapt from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry...
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Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

David Duff - 1994 - 304 pages
...added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever he obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace...leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look tha1 threatened her with insult. - But the age of chivalry is gone. -That of sophisters, oeconomists....
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Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic

David Bromwich - 1999 - 484 pages
...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...leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look diat threatened her with insult.— But the age of chivalry is gone.—That of sophisters, œconomists,...
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Glorious Causes: The Grand Theatre of Political Change, 1789 to 1833

Julia Swindells - 2001 - 234 pages
...should ever he obliged to carry the sharp antidore against disgrace concealed in that hosom; litrle did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters...thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from theit scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. t4 It is significant that Burke...
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Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance

Alex Davis - 2003 - 276 pages
...in France in which Burke bursts out into a hymn of indignation at the treatment of Marie Antoinette: little did I dream that I should have lived to see...cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leapt from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. - But the age of...
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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In History

William Safire - 2004 - 1168 pages
...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 n look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists,...
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