 It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all...  The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 479by Edmund Burke - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1837 - 434 pages
...heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." Little surely does he know of the llth century and its spirit who can suppose any part of the foregoing... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1837 - 432 pages
...heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." Little surely does he know of the llth century and its spirit who can suppose any part of the foregoing... | |
 | American literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...principle — that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound — -which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity — which ennobled whatever...lost half its evil by losing all its grossness."* The gay joitst or single combat, lance against lance, and the magnificent carousel, an allegorical... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 546 pages
...and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage...varying state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. If it should ever be totally... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...of prmciple, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wouud, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness." Yet inclined as we are to indulge in commendations of the spirit of chivalry, we cannot venture quite... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it...state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced, through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. It is this, which has given... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossuess ! " This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its...state of human affairs, subsisted and influenced, through a long succession of generations, even to the time we live in. It is this, which has given... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 702 pages
...nations, " the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise " is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, " that chastity of honour, which felt...ennobled whatever it touched, and " under which vice lost half its evil, by losing all its " grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sen" timent had... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 738 pages
...nations, " the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise " is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, " that chastity of honour, which felt...ennobled whatever it touched, and " under which vice lost half its evil, by losing all its " grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sen" timent had... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...gone, — | that sensibility of principle, — | that chastity of hon'our, | which felt a stain liAe a wound,, — | which inspired courage | whilst it...vice itself | lost half its evil, | by losing all its gross, ness. | 18* BATTLE OF WARSAW. (CAMPBELL.) O sacred Truth ! | thy triumph ceas'd awhile, | And... | |
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