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... Platt's essays - 34 psl.autoriai: James Platt - 1883Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 psl.
...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gonel It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1877 - 466 psl.
...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
| Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 psl.
...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, — that sensibility of principle, that...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 Arnold - 1877 - 656 psl.
...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
| Francis Davis - 1878 - 672 psl.
...martial ardour ; but we miss in these days that burning sensibility — that scorn of National wrong — "that chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound," which Thomas Davis impressed on his generation. They seem to have faded from our character in the long series... | |
| A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1973 - 490 psl.
...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroick enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
| Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 psl.
...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
| Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 psl.
...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
| Mary Poovey - 1985 - 309 psl.
...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
| Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - 1987 - 480 psl.
...of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity...felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost... | |
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