| Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 488 páginas
...Europe is extinguished for ever ! that the unbought grace of life, if any one knows what it is, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! and all this because the Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone, — what opinion can we form of... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 páginas
...of principle, that chastity of honor, 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 evil by losing all its grossness. — BURKE. It here represents the " sensibility of... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 páginas
...and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its groasncss. * 64. DECLARATION OF lRISH RIGHTS, 1780. — Heary Grattm. Heary Orattan, one of the most... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 páginas
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of Nations, the nurse of manly sentiment...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 páginas
...alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of Nations, the nurse of manly sentiment...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 páginas
...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The nnbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled... | |
| 1852 - 454 páginas
...kept alive even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment...and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone — that sensihility of prinelple, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1974 - 268 páginas
...extinguished forever! that The unbought grace of life (if any one knows what it is), the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!" and all this because the Quixotic age of chivalric nonsense is gone, what opinion can we form of his... | |
| Alexander M. Bickel - 1975 - 174 páginas
...of chivalry is gone . . . gone— that . . . charity of honor which felt a stain like a wound . . . which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness."14 With this passage, says Sir Philip Magnus, "the Romantic Movement in English literature... | |
| Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 páginas
...subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom . . . which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.37 The age of reason is the age of sophisters who have fatally severed the glorious link... | |
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