| Julia A. Stern - 2008 - Liczba stron: 324
...Europe is extinguished for ever!" that "The unbought grace of life" (if anyone knows what that 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 his... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1998 - Liczba stron: 660
...the glowing eloquence of his valediction to the spirit of chivalry. "It is gone," cries Mr. Burke; "that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half ils... | |
| Mary Jean Corbett - 2000 - Liczba stron: 242
...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought 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 whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled... | |
| Thomas Paine - 2000 - Liczba stron: 388
...extinguished forever!" that "the unbought grace of life (if anyone knows what it is), the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone!" - and all this because the Quixote age of chivalric nonsense is gone; what opinion can we form of his... | |
| Alex Davis - 2003 - Liczba stron: 276
...sophisters, oeconomists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever ... It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.109 Burke's great realisation, that 'the age of chivalry is gone', occurs during the French... | |
| Linda Raine Robertson - 2003 - Liczba stron: 520
...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. . . . The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic...which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry; and the principle,... | |
| F. H. Buckley - 2005 - Liczba stron: 260
...reader's sympathy and anger at the loss of the "chastity of honour, 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."20 If the appeal to our emotions still succeeds, it supports Burke's deeper point that our... | |
| George Walker - 2004 - Liczba stron: 396
...unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroick enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle,...wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated society, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing... | |
| Chilton Williamson - 2004 - Liczba stron: 360
...in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic...It is gone — that sensibility of principle, that charity of honor which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity,... | |
| Russell Kirk - 2004 - Liczba stron: 444
...and place ever after. Sortporth pUcc But the age of chivalry is gone The unbought grace of life. the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. /I is^one. that sensibility of principle. that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound,... | |
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