 After laying down my pen, 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...  The Nineteenth Century - Page 2971897Full view - About this book
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected upon the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...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 joy on...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... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...was serene, the silver orlr of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was- silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of nry freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober... | |
 | Richard Duppa - 1829 - 560 pages
...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 joy on...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... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1830 - 398 pages
...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 joy on...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. hat is pardonable iu ns from their fountains, if they...the same poets whom our Oglebies have translated But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had... | |
 | 1830 - 222 pages
...sky was serene, tho silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhap'a the establishment of my fame; but my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...the country, the lake, and the mountains. The silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame." The capture of Buenos Ayres, by Sir Home Popham, 1806. That rare phenomenon, a water spout, " which... | |
 | 1833 - 666 pages
...sky wa? serene, the silver orb of the rnoon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame; but iny pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy ^as spread over my mind by the idea that I had... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the fir»t emotions of joy, on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame, but my pride was soon humbled, and a s-ober melancholy spread over my mind, by the idea that I had... | |
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