 | Hannah More - 1830 - 620 pages
...less effect, to raise the spirit of true chivalry, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the false. ' The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! * Selfishness is scarcely more opposite to true religion than tme gallantry.... | |
 | John Benn Walsh Baron Ormathwaite - 1831 - 130 pages
...institutions of the middle ages a certain irregular, and almost indefinable love of liberty, " which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom;" but this sentiment, however worthy of the eloquent eulogy of Burke, c3 21 was of much too lordly and... | |
 | Hannah More - 1832 - 564 pages
...less effect, to raise the spirit of true chivalry, as much as Cervantes had done to lay the falsa. 1 The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone !'* Selfishness is scarcely more opposite to true religion than true... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of...cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensihility of principle, that chastity of honour,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...sex,—that proud submission,—that dignified obedience,—that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of...exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap de3 fense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone,—that... | |
 | 1853 - 572 pages
...extinguished for ever." The immortal spirit of Edmund Burke may find consolation in the circumstance that " the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment, and heroic enterprise" is still among us; and, in truth, acceptable as is the testimony which is given... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1836 - 588 pages
...rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ; that untaught grace of life, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1837 - 434 pages
...rank and sex, the proud submission, the dignified obedience, and that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1837 - 428 pages
...rank and sex, the proud submission, the dignified obedience, and that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which... | |
 | 1838 - 716 pages
...and sex — that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle — that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound — -which... | |
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... the age of chivalry is gone! that of sophisters, economists and calculators has 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, that dignified... 
