 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
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 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... | |
 | 1857 - 480 pages
...silver orb of the moon was reflected frona {he waters, 1 Memoirs, p. J66. 23* 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 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... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and lui 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 л sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...in a covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy, on...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame." He continues : " I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in composition, of six or at least... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...in a covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy, on...recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of myfame." He continues : " I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in composition, of six or... | |
 | 1860 - 784 pages
...skv was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. ou may submit it, if you please, to his consideration....yesterday on another subject, which reminded me of said But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 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... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 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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