 | William Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 pages
...idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion•; and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." Gibbon was born in the year 1737, at Putney in Surrey The delicate boy received much of his early education... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and 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, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five quartos.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 pages
...idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and 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, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five quartos.... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 pages
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history the life of the historian must be short and precarious." It is the common lot. It is but another reading of the complaint in Prior's pastorals— "Yet thus... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 pages
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history the life of the historian must be short and precarious." It is the common lot. It is but another reading of the complaint in Prior's pastorals— "Yet thus... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pages
...the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious" (M, 180). The Decline and Fall, his offspring, has also become his closest, oldest, most agreeable... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pages
...idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious" (Memoirs 169). In the long view — and twenty years devoted to the Decline and fall would encourage... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pages
...idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable 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 admired classical authors, writing was always a work of conscious artistry.... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 pages
...idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." See Edward Gibbon (1737-94), Memoirs of My Life (1827), ed. George A. Bonnard (New York: Funk and Wagnalls,... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 pages
...that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable [sic] companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. (180) This is the high point of Gibbon's life, in the recording of which his public identity and his... | |
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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, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must... 
