 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1837 - 432 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it...which vice 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... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 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,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 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,...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
 | American literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom — that sensibility of principle — that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound — -which inspired...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness."* The gay joitst or single combat, lance against lance, and the magnificent carousel,... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...It is gone; that sensibilit, of prmciple, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wouud, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity,...which, vice 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... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 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 - Politicians - 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 - Politicians - 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... | |
 | 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,...which, vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness ! " This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry.... | |
 | 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,...which, vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossuess ! " This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry.... | |
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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... 
