Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, 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... The Royal Readers - Page 168by Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893Full view - About this book
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1790 - 606 pages
...difgrace ct ncealed in that bofom; little did I dream that 1 fhould have lived to fee fuch difafters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men. in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thoufand Avords muft have leaped from ir fcabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with in.—But... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...difgrace concealed in that bofom ; little did I dream that I fhould have lived to fee fuch difafters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thoufand fwords muft have leaped from their fcabbards to avense even even a look that threatened her... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 370 pages
...difgrace concealed in that bofom ; little did I dream that I fhould have lived to fee fuch difafters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thoufand fwords muft have leaped from their fcabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 380 pages
...difgrace concealed in that bofom ; little did I dream that I fhould have lived to fee fuch difafters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. . 1 thought te'n thoufand fwords muft have leaped from their fcabbards to avenge even a look that threatened... | |
| James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...written in the year 175,5. VOL. I, B Little did I dream that I fliould have lived to fee fucli .difafters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation...of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thoufand fwords mull have leaped from their fcabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with... | |
| English literature - 1793 - 302 pages
...no, we have him fafe in jail : * Little did I dream that I fhould have lived to fee fuch difafters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and cavaliers, p. 1 1 1. f We have Lord George Gordon faft in Newgate, kc. p. 114. There, There, in a "... | |
| 1797 - 700 pages
...difgrace concealed in that bofom; little did I dream that I fliould have lived to fee fuch difafters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thoufand fwords mult have leaped from their fcabbards to avenge even a loik that threatened her with... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...difgrace concealed in that bofom; little did I dream that I fhould Have lived to fee fuch difafters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thoufands fwords muft have leaped from their fcabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation...her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.' The same all-grasping genius exhibits most striking examples of the pathetic, the terrible, the sublime.... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...revolution! and what heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...with insult — but the age of chivalry is gone!" In the following simile, the conspicuous light in which the valour of Hector is placed, demands a considerable... | |
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