...that fall ! Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of distant, enthusiastic, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to...But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,...

...lived to see such disasters fallen upon her, in a Nation of gallant men, in a Nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers ! I thought ten thousand swords must...her with insult. " But the age of chivalry is gone, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." The following selection from Shelley's " To a Skylark,"...

...lived to see such disasters fallen upon her, ia a Nation of gallant men, in a Nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers ! I thought ten thousand swords must...her with insult. " But the age of chivalry is gone, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." The following selection from Shelley's " To a Skylark."...

...upon her, in a Nation of gallant men, in a Nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers ! I thought tea thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards,...her with insult. " But the age of chivalry is gone, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." The following selection from Shelley's " To a Skylark,"...

...lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.—But the age of chivalry is gone. 1 RIGHTS OF MAN. If civil society be made for the advantage...

...life, and splendour, and joy. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to comtemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little...But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,...

...carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.—But the age of chivalry is gone.—That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has...

...rough plebeians who break into her bedchamber is followed by his fond memory of the queen in her glory in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought...the age of chivalry is gone.— That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never,...

...to Burke's famous defence of Marie Antoinette in his 1791 Reflections on the Revolution in France. 'I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...her with insult. - But the age of chivalry is gone.' See Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969), p. 170. 52...

...decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,— glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a revolution!...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.—But the age of chivalry is gone.—That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has...