 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...  A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical: Of the Various ... - Page 140by John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1851Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - Switzerland - 1836 - 374 pages
...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 waters, and...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame ; but my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 444 pages
...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 waters, and...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame." This last point was. in his... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...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 waters, and...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy, on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | Baptists - 1848 - 668 pages
...I will not dissemble," he says, " the first emotions of joy which took possession of my mind on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting farewell of... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...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 waters, and...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy, on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...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 waters, and all nature was silent. I will not • See preface to the Life of Mahomet, p. 10, 11. I 1 have followed the judiciou- precept of the Abb£... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...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 waters, and all nature wag silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps,... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 596 pages
...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 waters, and...nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotion of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...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 waters, and...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 taken an everlasting leave of... | |
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