 | 1855 - 424 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the loon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent, will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my îreedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame, i ¡ < a my pride was soon humbled, and a sober... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of...melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea, that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the... | |
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 pages
...ternperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of...my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 pages
...waters, and all nature was silent." — " I will not," he adds, " dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment...melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the... | |
 | 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 was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." For me, the joy and the melancholy... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pages
...passionless nature Mr. Gibbon may have had, but it must have been also a singularly amiable one. ' I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.' Throughout his life Gibbon thoroughly understood his own position. As a man of letters he had no vulgar... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - 1992 - 340 pages
...Edward Gibbon, for example, upon completion of his great history, noted: "I will not dissemble the firm emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame." As is now known, about Gibbons's fame there was no "perhaps" whatsoever. Gibbons's fame arrived on... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pages
...reflected from the 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... | |
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I took several turns in a 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... 
