 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - Страниц: 424
...dignified obedience, — that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace...wound, — which inspired courage whilst it mitigated 1 Marie Antoinette, daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa, and Queen of LouU XVI., guillotined 1703.... | |
 | John Cumming - 1851 - Страниц: 592
...the heart, which kept alive even in servitude itself the spirit of an exalted freedom. The uhbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse...of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone." Even this, however, was but the beginning of the sanguinary outburst. The king was soon after dragged... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - Страниц: 488
...of Europe is extinguished for ever ! that the unbought grace of life, if any one knows what it is, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! and all this because the Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone, — what opinion can we form of... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - Страниц: 488
...of Europe is extinguished for ever ! that the unbought grace of life, if any one knows what it is, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! and all this because the Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone, — what opinion can we form of... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - Страниц: 570
...that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ! The unbought grace...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - Страниц: 570
...that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom ! The unbought grace...gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which... | |
 | 1852 - Страниц: 454
...that dignified obedicnce, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace...and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone — that sensihility of prinelple, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - Страниц: 422
...argument by quoting Edmund Burke on the sad decline from older standards of moral and aesthetic taste: "It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice lost half its... | |
 | David A. Wilson - 1988 - Страниц: 252
...extinguished foreverl that The unbought grace of life (if any one knows what it is), the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone," and all this because the Quixotic age of chivalric nonsense is gone, what opinion can we form of his... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - Страниц: 978
...and to honour the values that are arbitrarily or customarily associated with the name of chivalry: 'the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of...the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise' (Reflections, VIII, p. 117). On all fronts Burke husbands the uncertainty, darkness and confusion that... | |
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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. The unbought grace... 
