 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...  Lectures on the Harvard Classics - Page 39edited by - 1914 - 490 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1867 - 448 pages
...emotion, that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to that enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should...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 avenge... | |
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 270 pages
...dream that, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote...such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant man, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers ; I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped... | |
 | Augustus Antoine Cornelius Meves - 1868 - 380 pages
...she just began to move in, glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to...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 avenge... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 286 pages
...began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have,...in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honourj and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1868 - 526 pages
...— glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh 1 what a revolution 1 and what a, heart must I have, to contemplate without...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 avenge... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...began to move in, — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. .... 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 avenge... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...bo.som — j little did 1 dream | thnt 1 should have lived | to see such disasters fallen upon Aer i in a nation of gallant men', — | in a nation of...cavaliers,. | I thought ten thousand swords must have |caped from their scabbards to avenge even a look' \ that threatened her with insull. | But the age... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - Fiction - 1984 - 280 pages
...-glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion...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 avenge... | |
 | Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - History - 1987 - 480 pages
...glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion...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 avenge... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - English poetry - 1990 - 338 pages
...(1790) of the fall of Marie Antoinette as the end of chivalry: 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 of cavaliers. 1 thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
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