...period: Little did I dream that I should have lived to see disasters fallen upon [Marie Antoinette] in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of...But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of England is extinguished for ever. (73)...

...Reflections invoked die spirit of romance to lament die fall of die monarch: Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon...have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a 15 'On Fable and Romance', in Dissertations Moral and Critical (London: Strahan, 1783), 503-74 (563);...

...star, full of life, and splendour, and joy . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her 166 with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, From Knight economists, and calculators,...

...should live to see such disasters fall upon her in a nation of gallant men; a nation of men of honor, cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry has gone.' " Curiously, the only medical man to examine Mary Lincoln's case in retrospect and in depth...

...Burke's Reflections considers the treatment accorded the hapless Marie Antoinette. He had written, "I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. " 33 The implied status of women is easy to discern; upper-class and aristocratic women are there,...

...failed, would become a motive of his description of the queen of France — suddenly helpless with "such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers."13 Once more, in the peroration of his speech in opening the impeachment of Warren Hastings,...

...this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.... [Ljittle did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards...

...the language of a hazy, semierotic daydream, bemoaning the fact that "ten thousand swords" had not "leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult," and concluding mournfully that "the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists and calculators...

...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, a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords would have leapt from their...

...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...But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,...