 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, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of...  New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 114edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a soher melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that...leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must he short and precarious.... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...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...leave of an old and agreeable companion; and that, whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious!"... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread ovei my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting...leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread ovei my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting...leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...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 1 had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the... | |
 | Richard Duppa - Architecture - 1829 - 560 pages
...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...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."*... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, good poet is no more like himself in a. dull translation,...thau his carcass would be to his living body. There whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.'*... | |
 | 1830 - 222 pages
...the recovery of my freedom, and perhap'a the establishment of my fame; but my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by...leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...on 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...leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.... | |
 | American literature - 1833 - 666 pages
...and perhaps the establishment of my fame; but iny pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy ^as spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, andthat whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short... | |
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