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the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere
she just began to move in,— glittering like the morning-
star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a
revolution! and what a heart must I have to contemplate,
without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I
dream when she added titles of veneration to those of
enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should
ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against
disgrace 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 men of honor, and
of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have
leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that
threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has
succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for