 ... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not...  The Great Triumphs of Great Men - Page 211publié par - 1875 - 624 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my...agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts... | |
 | 1854 - 616 pages
...waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame....agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short und precarious." Ile, a man, wrote... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pages
...the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my...agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1991 - 420 pages
...volume: "I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom," Gibbon acknowledged; "but my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." For me, the joy and the melancholy are more than matched by the gratitude I sense to all those who... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pages
...lays down his pen, cherishes prospects of freedom and fame, but then contemplates mortality and loss: "But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pages
...lost. It is also the life work of an author who loses a large part of himself when it is finished: "My pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 pages
...all was strange. 'I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, . . . But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion.' Gibbon, E., Autobiography, p. 205. \ CtV\l_kAN INTERNMENT CAAV 1942 Grapevine The Test of War* (Part... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pages
...waters, and .ill nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions ofjoy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sobre melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 pages
...waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame....was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable [sic] companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future... | |
 | Sarah Grand - 2000 - 606 pages
...the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom . . . But my pride was soon humbled and a slow melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." When Sarah Grand came to the last page of ADNAM'S ORCHARD (Heinemann, 6s.) she must have realized in... | |
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