 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
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 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... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 pages
...eleven and twelve that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. ... 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 melancoly was spread over my mind by the idea that I had... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 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... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 2003 - 390 pages
...his final volume in 1788, Gibbon bade a fond farewell to his readers, and to his great project: 'l will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the...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 l had... | |
 | Jeremy D. Popkin - 2005 - 350 pages
...up the mixed feelings that this achievement inspired: "I will not dissemble the first emotions of my 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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1879 - 451 pages
...silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not describe the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame," etc.—Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq., vol. i., p. 170, ed. Dublin, 1796. In illustration... | |
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