...quite explicit that its stability was an effect of a deeper set of underlying causes. The famous lament ("But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.") that he issued immediately after describing how he had once seen Marie Antoinette, "glittering...

...should at any time find himself tempted to be cruel.""3 Pater might have been recalling Edmund Burke: "I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from...scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.""4 But where Burke would leap to his feet, Florian effects a subtle, sadomasochistic identification...

...concealed in that bosom ! little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of...succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission,...

...concealed in that bosom ! little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of...succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission,...

...lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.20 There were over seventy responses to Burke's Reflections: most were hostile, many pilloried...

...eighteenth-century conservative English politician — lamented in his Reflections on the Revolution in France: "[T]he age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,...and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever" (quoted in Byres, "The Creation of 'The Tribe of Pundits Called Economists,'" in his The Indian Economy,...