 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
 | sir John Bowring - 1878 - 642 pages
...hours of eleven and twelve I wrote the last line 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 rny pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - 444 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... | |
 | Nimrod - 1926 - 374 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected on 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... | |
 | Henry Robinson Shipherd - 1926 - 380 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... | |
 | 1928 - 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... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - 1928 - 492 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... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pages
...good judge. Mr. Gibbon's subsequent praise of Mademoiselle Curchod's virtuous pride in poverty *nd Madame Necker's graceful dignity in high station is...never disturbed. No such work as the Decline -and Faifl, if indeed there be such another, was ever more completely due to one imperial mind. ' Not a... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - 1992 - 340 pages
...Edward Gibbon, for example, upon completion of his great history, noted: "I will not dissemble the firm emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame." As is now known, about Gibbons's fame there was no "perhaps" whatsoever. Gibbons's fame arrived on... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 pages
...the early postwar years stand out as a time of lonely struggle in a land in which all was strange. 'I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, . . . But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pages
...reflected from the waters, and .ill nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions ofjoy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sobre melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had... | |
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