 | Jonathan David Gross - 2001 - Страниц: 252
...Reflections on the Revolution in France and Thomas Paine, Tlie Rights of Man (New York: Doubleday, 1989), 89. "I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...the age of chivalry is gone. — That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever." 39.... | |
 | Mike Sanders - 2001 - Страниц: 632
...reappropriation. In particular, this pamphlet reworks Edmund Burke's famous remark on Marie Antoinette - 'I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...avenge even a look that threatened her with insult' (Burke 1986: 170) - casting Queen Caroline as the wronged princess and the Regent's Court and Ministers... | |
 | Lincoln Allison - 2001 - Страниц: 228
...aristocratic values: I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards 4 Amateurism in Sport to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. - But the age of chivalry is gone. - That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.'... | |
 | Steve Martinot - 2001 - Страниц: 382
...obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom, little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men. ... I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that... | |
 | Norma Thompson - 2008 - Страниц: 256
..."Little did I dream," Burke says, "that I should have seen such disasters fallen upon the Queen of France in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
 | Stephen K. White - 2002 - Страниц: 134
...the journey to Paris. The description is crowned by Burke's cloying lament: Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon...threatened her with insult. — But the age of chivalry is gone.23 These pages of the Reflections make it quite easy to imagine, as many have, that the Burke... | |
 | Felicia Hemans - 2002 - Страниц: 324
...Revolution in France (1790) over the failure of chivalry in the arrest of Queen Marie Antoinette, a scandal "in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her." Hemans 's chivalric-Christian saviors evoke, by their positive presence, the related scandal of the... | |
 | Patrick M. Geoghegan - 2002 - Страниц: 388
...ideals of beauty on the walls of a cell with human excrement.' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Autumn 1803) 'I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone . . . and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.' (Edmund Burke on the treatment of Queen Marie... | |
 | Jerrold E. Hogle - 2002 - Страниц: 360
...menaced by a mob of fish wives: I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scahbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult....But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never,... | |
 | Samuel Lyndon Gladden - 2002 - Страниц: 376
.... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon [Marie Antoinette] in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge... | |
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... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her 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 even a look... 
