 | 1830 - 222 pages
...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...life of the historian must be short and precarious." The sentiment of regret thus breathed by Gibbon his been no less beautifully expressed in the verse... | |
 | American literature - 1833 - 666 pages
...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... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...perhaps, the establishment of my fame, but my pride was soon humbled, and a s-ober melancholy spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting...be the future date of my history, the life of the author might be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 354 pages
...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 an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious."... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...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...be the future date of my history, the life of the author might be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - Switzerland - 1836 - 374 pages
...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...; and that, whatsoever might be the future date of ray history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.'* : . • ' • V . . I ;. GIBBON.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 pages
...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 an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious."*... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 526 pages
...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 an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious."*... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...the establislmient 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...have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or even of five, quartos. 1 . My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...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...have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or even of five, quartos. 1 . My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent... | |
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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... 
