 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
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 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 Strang - 1863 - 352 pages
...in the instruction of the sons of Count Dolma; fleeted 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 - 1866 - 484 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 Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 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 ; but my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I... | |
 | 1867 - 1052 pages
...summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a covered walk of acacias. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhapb the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1868 - 384 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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1868 - 468 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 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 • I have followed the judicious precept of the Abbe' de... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1869 - 360 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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 pages
...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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