 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 the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 93by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Keightley - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1837 - 434 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched,...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 - 428 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched,...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 it...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
...prmciple, that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wouud, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched,...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 - 300 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound; which inspired courage, while it mitigated ferocity ; which ennobled whatever it touched,...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. And... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...that chastity of hon'our, | which felt a stain liAe a wound,, — | which inspired courage | whilst it mitigated fero'city, — | which enno'bled whatever...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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 626 pages
...which felt a stain like a wound ; which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity; which enobled whatever it touched, and under which, vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. But now, all is to be changed All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle, and obedience liberal;... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 702 pages
...courage whilst it mitigated " ferocity, which 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 its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and " the principle, though varied in its appearance... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 738 pages
...courage whilst it mitigated " ferocity, which 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 its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and " the principle, though varied in its appearance... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched,...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. [The Order of NobUity.} [From the вате.] To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions,... | |
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