 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace, concealed in that bosom. Little did I dream, that I should have lived to see...a nation of gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace, concealed in that bosom. Little did I dream, that I should have lived to see...a nation of gallant men, — in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 702 pages
...she " should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote " against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did " I dream that I should have lived to see...in a nation of gallant men, in a " nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought " ten thousand swords must have leaped from their " scabbards to... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...should ever be obliged | to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace', | concealed in that bo,som — | little did I dream that I should have lived \ to see...nation of gallant men', — | in a nation of men of hon'our, and of cavaliers,. | I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 738 pages
...she " should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote " against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did " I dream that I should have lived to see...in a nation of gallant men, in a " nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought " ten thousand swords must have leaped from their " scabbards to... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 468 pages
...contemplate, without emotion, that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream that I should live to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; honour and of cavar Hers. 1 thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...that ehe should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; John Moore. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,...rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewe honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - American essays - 1845 - 404 pages
...that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to see...scabbards 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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...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...scabbards, 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... | |
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... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her 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 even a look that... 
