 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
 | John Holmes Agnew - 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...recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment ot my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflecte-f from the waters, and all nature was silent. I »vill not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment ot my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 750 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From...the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder ! n But my pride wa,soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spreaJ over my mind by the idea that I had... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 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 - 1844 - 786 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, an,l al 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 - 1844 - 738 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. two eyes, Two starry eyes, hung in the gloom of...with their serene and azure smiles To beckon him. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 381 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...sky was serene, the silyer 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... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 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 Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 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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