 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - History - 1899 - 446 pages
...own words, " 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." The lady became the wife of Jacques Necker, a Genevese banker, afterwards famous as the minister of... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 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 the habits of a new life." And the young lady ? She became the wife of Necker, the famous financier and minister of France, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1900 - 398 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...report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,2 and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Grassy soon afterwards died... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 834 pages
...connection. 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. The lady lived to become the wife of Necker, the famous finance minister of France, and in years to... | |
 | Francis Henry Gribble - Geneva (Switzerland) - 1901 - 440 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." Such is Gibbon's story, which is also the accepted story. It is, perhaps,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1902 - 238 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...My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.''... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1902 - 254 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...My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.''... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1902 - 360 pages
...all else about him, has become classical. ' I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as 'a son.' He proceeds: 'My wound was insensibly ' healed by time, absence and the habits of a new life.' It is shocking. Never, surely, was love so flouted before. Gibbon is charitably supposed by some persons... | |
 | English periodicals - 1904 - 716 pages
...not make the faintest show of résistance to his father : " 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." His words seem to describe the recovery from a scratch rather than a wound. We are all eager to sympathise... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 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... | |
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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... 
