 | Thomas Hitchcock - Biography - 1891 - 274 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 Grassy soon afterward died ; his stipend died with him ;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; l 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 Grassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 pages
...fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a sorif1 my~\vound was msens1bl^J1g.ilffl hy timn^ahsencc, and the habits ~of a new life. My- cure was accelerated...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Grassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him.... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1895 - 378 pages
...these words are not in our printed text. Then he goes on : ' 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, &c.' This phrase is taken out of its context, and by the editor is dexterously inserted into the midst... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1895 - 66 pages
...these words are not in our printed text. Then he goes on : ' 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, &c.' This phrase is taken out of its context, and by the editor is dextrously inserted into the midst... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1896 - 540 pages
...return, by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. 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 ; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and chearfulness of the Lady... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1896 - 466 pages
...return, by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. 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 ; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and chearfulness of the Lady... | |
 | John Meredith Read - Bern (Switzerland) - 1897 - 586 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.' M. d'Haussonville takes Gibbon to task for having obeyed the injunctions... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - Biography - 1897 - 376 pages
...left Lausanne, and his wound was healed by absence, time, and the habits of a new life, the cure being accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself. She married Necker, a famous banker of Paris, and when Gibbon's love had subsided to friendship and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 370 pages
...return by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. 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 ; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady... | |
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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... 
