 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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not • See preface to the Life of Mahomet, p. 10, 11. dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery...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... | |
 | 1839 - 764 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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 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 hum. bled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 394 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the water, 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... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the water, 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, attd 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... | |
 | Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (known as) - 1839 - 874 pages
...silvery orb of the moon was reOecled from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble (be first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But ray pride was soon humbled, and a LAUSANNE. 19 • i-tr mtlancBol)- wts spread over my at tj the... | |
 | Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (known as) - 1839 - 438 pages
...was rellected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions jny 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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 344 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 had... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 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... | |
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