 | 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;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated f melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought,...unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with [The Order of NobUity.} [From the вате.] To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions,... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry ; and the principle,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. LESSON CLXVIII. Intemperance. LYMAN BEECHER. COULD I call around me, in one vast assembly, the temperate... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - American essays - 1845 - 366 pages
...that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage, whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. " But all is now changed. All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle, and obedience liberal,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...a st'ain/ like a wou'nd, — which inspired co'urage/ whilst it mitigated ferocity, which enno'bied whatever it touch"ed ; and under whic'h/ vice itself/ lost half its e'vil, by lo'sing all its grAossness. THE COMMON LOT. MONTGOMERY. ON'CE/ in the flight of ages pa'st, There lived a nm n ; —... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...me, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scat23 age whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evils by losing all its grossness. JUNIUS. (1769-1772.) [THE ablest writer of invective in the English... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 268 pages
...That chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness, is gone. Let conquerors boast Their fields of fame, he who in virtue arms A young, warm spirit against... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, and ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice...itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. CONQUEST OP JERUSALEM BY THE CRUSADERS, AD 1009.— GIBBON. was not till after a long and obstinate... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...That chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all ite grossness, is gone. Let conquerors boast Their fields of fame, he who in virtue arms A young, warm... | |
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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... 
