...Reflections on the Revolution in France and Thomas Paine, Tlie Rights of Man (New York: Doubleday, 1989), 89. "I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...the age of chivalry is gone. — That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." 39....

...reappropriation. In particular, this pamphlet reworks Edmund Burke's famous remark on Marie Antoinette - 'I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult' (Burke 1986: 170) - casting Queen Caroline as the wronged princess and the Regent's Court and Ministers...

...aristocratic values: I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards 4 Amateurism in Sport to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. - But the age of chivalry is gone. - That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.'...

...obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom, little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men. ... I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that...

..."Little did I dream," Burke says, "that I should have seen such disasters fallen upon the Queen of France 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...

...the journey to Paris. The description is crowned by Burke's cloying lament: Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon...threatened her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone.23 These pages of the Reflections make it quite easy to imagine, as many have, that the Burke...

...Revolution in France (1790) over the failure of chivalry in the arrest of Queen Marie Antoinette, a scandal "in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her." Hemans 's chivalric-Christian saviors evoke, by their positive presence, the related scandal of the...

...ideals of beauty on the walls of a cell with human excrement.' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Autumn 1803) 'I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone . . . and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.' (Edmund Burke on the treatment of Queen Marie...

...menaced by a mob of fish wives: I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scahbards 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; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never,...

.... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon [Marie Antoinette] 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...