 | 1855 - 424 Seiten
...humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread ver my mind by the idea, that I had taken an everlasting eave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian would be short and precarious. I will add two facts,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." Mr. Grate's history is completed. Among many contemporary narratives... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 Seiten
...dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1991 - 420 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. For Gibbon, as for his... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 Seiten
...dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame. 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 [sic] companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future... | |
 | Sarah Grand - 2000 - 606 Seiten
...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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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of... 
