...deficient in grace and gallantry. The bows with which it commenced and closed, declaratory in action of that " generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience," which Burke lias immortalized in description— the passaging from side to side, reflecting, as it...

...of its fall in these words—" The age of Chivalry is gone,— that of sophisters, oeconomists, anil calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." Burke, Letter on the French Revolution, p. 113. f De Sade, Vie de Petrarque, apud Godwin, Life of Chaucer,...

...character.' Nearly a century ago, Burke declared ' the age of chivalry is gone ; the age of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.' Similarly Carlyle calls the eighteenth century ' An insincere world, a godless untruth of a world....

...swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone— that of sophisters,...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever! Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission...

...thought ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge their wrongs — but their age of chivalry is gone, that of sophisters, economists...succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." But these illustrious men despaired not of the cause of Greece for they had seen the hour...

...that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone : that of sophisters, œconomists, s. Then the monopoly of mental power will be added to the power of all other kinds it possesse moro, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified...

...swords must have leaped from their 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 succceeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that...

...be no more — that of philosophers and of Christians will succeed, and the torch of superstition be extinguished for ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank, which is prodigal of its own virtue and its own happiness to invest a few with unholy splendours ;...

...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...

...swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that 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 is extinguished for ever. Never, never...