| Great Britain - 1846 - 502 pages
...the last lines of the last page " of his immortal ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire :' — " A sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." It is so, perhaps, with every man who does for the last time what he has been long accustomed to do.... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 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...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." Gibbon's... | |
| Baptist Wriothesley Noel - Switzerland - 1848 - 394 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...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." It... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 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...old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." From... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a cold, or, indeed, a touch of them all three. But when I came to your lordship's whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.... | |
| England - 1849 - 822 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...leave of an old and agreeable companion; and that, whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian muet be short and precarious."—... | |
| Scotland - 1849 - 844 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...leave of an old and agreeable companion; and that, whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...recovery of my freedom, and perhaps tho establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea...leave of an old and agreeable companion ; and that, whatever might be the future fate of my History, tho life of the historian must be short and precarious."—Life,... | |
| Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 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...leave of an old and agreeable companion ; and that, whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."... | |
| Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 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...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. GIBBON'S... | |
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