...that elevation and that fall 1 * * * But the age of chivalry is gone 1 That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever !' — Reflections on the French Revolution. as the illustration given by Paine, when he said Mr. Burke,...

...deficient in grace and gallantry. The bows with which it commenced and closed, declaratory in action of that " generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience," which Burke lias immortalized in description— the passaging from side to side, reflecting, as it...

...speaks of its fall in these words — " The age of Chivalry is gone, — that of sopbisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." Burke, Letter on the French Revolution, p. 113. f De Sade, Vie de Petrarque, apud Godwin, Life of Chaucer,...

...of its fall in these words—" The age of Chivalry is gone,— that of sophisters, oeconomists, anil calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." Burke, Letter on the French Revolution, p. 113. f De Sade, Vie de Petrarque, apud Godwin, Life of Chaucer,...

...Nearly a century ago, Burke declared ' the age of chivalry is gone ; the age of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.' Similarly Carlyle calls the eighteenth century ' An insincere world, a godless untruth of a world....

...sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever! Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty...sex, that proud submission that dignified obedience, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of...

...that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of...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,...

...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...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,...

...passions forge their fetters. MANNERS. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of...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,...

...neve/ more shall we behold that gi loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that iliu'iiili'-d ; I al ex«Iti'd freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly ;-eiiliineiit...