 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...honor, 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 its grossness. VIII. ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA.—Burke. Mr. Speaker—For national service of whatever kind, whether... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1837 - 428 pages
...subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...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 - 1837 - 434 pages
...subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 480 pages
...institutions,—that cheap defence of nations,—the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, —that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling whatsoever it touched." Justly may we... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 488 pages
...institutions, — that cheap defence of nations, — the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling whatsoever it touched." Justly may we... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 480 pages
...institutions, — that cheap defence of nations, — the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, — that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound ; inspiring courage while it mitigated ferocity, and ennobling whatsoever it touched." Justly may we... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour,...felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost... | |
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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... 
