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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... "
The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of His ... - Page 335
by Robert Bisset - 1800
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A memoir of the political life of ... Edmund Burke

George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...dream, that when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote...gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look...
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History of Our Own Times, Volume 1

Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 pages
...contemplate, without emotion, that elevation and that fall ! 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 honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to that enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that cavar Hers. 1 thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...glittering like the morning star; full of life, and splendor, and joy. O, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion...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...
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Miscellaneous Writings of George W. Burnap ... Collected and Revised by the ...

George Washington Burnap - 1845 - 366 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...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...
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The rhetorical reader, consisting of choice specimens of oratorical ...

John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...em'otion,) that eleva'tion and that fall ! Little did I drea'm/ th'at, when she added titles of veneraAtion/ to those of enthusiastic, di'stant, respe'ctful lov'e,...little did I dream/ th'at/ I should have li'ved/ to have see'n such disasters fallen-uponher/ in a nation of gallant-men, — in a n'ation of/ me'n-of-honour/...
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The Duty of American Women to Their Country

Catharine Esther Beecher - 1845 - 188 pages
...of life, and splendour, and joy. Little did I dream I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation...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,...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...the sharp antidote against disgrace 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 and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge...
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The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds ...

George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 pages
...did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to that enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote...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...
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Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College

Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...when Bhe added || titles of veneration, to those of enthusiastic, || distant, l| respectful love, that she should ever || be obliged to carry the sharp antidote...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...
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