 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 586 pages
...enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a staiu like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossncss ! This... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ED... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone. It is gone, — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. Burke.... | |
 | Dionysius Cassius Longinus, Longinus - 1867 - 230 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and hero1c enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.".... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1985 - 309 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.'... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This... | |
 | Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - 1987 - 480 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...decline from older standards of moral and aesthetic taste: "It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half its... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a...courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.1"... | |
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It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all... 
