 | American literature - 1881 - 884 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lever, I obeyed as.a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...cheerfulness of the lady herself ; and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." The deliberate misrepresentation of the course of events is proved by the... | |
 | Scotland - 1881 - 842 pages
...was but a sorry fellow after all, though he makes the best of it in the tale. " My wound," he adds, " was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." But when he goes on to say that her father died, and that Susan had to come... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of C'rassy soon afterwards died; his stipend died with him,... | |
 | Haussonville (comte d') - Intellectuals - 1882 - 344 pages
...and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the l ady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. If we are to believe Gibbon's story all... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 406 pages
...unhandsome account of the short sequel of the affair ; or it may be that his lofty " Decline and Fall" manner had made him view everything as having historical...and my love subsided into friendship and esteem." Mr. Gibbon's tranquil version of the incident might have proved the authorised or accepted one, only... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...life, which he found m England, had their usual effect ; his passion vanished. " My cure," he says, " was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." The probability, indeed, that he and Mdlle. Curchod would ever see each... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...son; my wound sensibly healed by time, absence, anil the habits of a new life. My cure was accelby e subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterwards his stipend died with him,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 866 pages
...sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habite of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. ' They remained constant friends in later life, and the former lover during... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 848 pages
...he adds, ' After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.' They remained constant friends in later life, and the former lover during... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; 1 my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him.... | |
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After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of... 
