 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...modern literature. " The age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, calculators, and economists has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished...of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manlv sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pages
...comes into question. ' The age of chivalry,' said Burke, ' is gone ! That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe...servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.' But we hope this is not quite true, even yet, in Europe ! Mr. Prescott is mistaken in supposing that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 pages
...that of sophisters, economists, and calailatorsjia.s_siicceeded ; nnd thru prlnry-_j>f F^rppp i«; extinguished for ^ever. Never, never more, shall we...submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the^heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, economists, and VOL. II. D 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,... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone ; that of sophisters, economists, and VOL. II. D calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe...never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty td rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...| That of sophisters, economists, | and calculators, | has succeeded; | and the glory of Europe n | is extinguished for ev,er. Never, never more, | shall...an exalted freedom. | The unbought grace of life,, | the cheap defence of nations, | the nurse of manly sentiment, | and heroic en'terprise, | is gone,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 626 pages
...age of chivalry, (says Burke) is gone; that of sophists, economists, and calculators has commenced; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever....kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life,—the cheap defence of nations,—the nurse of manly sentiment... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 702 pages
...But the age of chivalry is gone. That " of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has suc" ceeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for " ever....that " generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud sub" mission, that dignified obedience, that subordination " of the heart, which kept alive, even in... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1841 - 738 pages
...But the age of chivalry is gone. That " of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has suc" ceeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for " ever....that " generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud sub" mission, that dignified obedience, that subordination " of the heart, which kept alive, even in... | |
 | Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, Samuel Laman Blanchard - 1842 - 366 pages
...suppose to be thus printed : — But the " age of chivalry " is gone ; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the " glory of Europe " is extinguished for ever. The unbought grace of life, the "cheap defence of nations*," the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic... | |
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Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. 
