 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of rny fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...the idea that I had taken an everlasting' leave of tin old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must... | |
 | 1858 - 398 pages
...dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...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...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1858 - 694 pages
...dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my -fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must... | |
 | Unitarian churches - 1858 - 588 pages
...freedom, and 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 leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - Religion - 1991 - 420 pages
...volume: "I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom," Gibbon acknowledged; "but my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." For me, the joy and the melancholy are more than matched by the gratitude I sense to all... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - History - 1987 - 260 pages
...lays down his pen, cherishes prospects of freedom and fame, but then contemplates mortality and loss: "But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...lost. It is also the life work of an author who loses a large part of himself when it is finished: "My pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - History - 1998 - 506 pages
...all was strange. 'I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, . . . But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion.' Gibbon, E., Autobiography, p. 205. \ CtV\l_kAN INTERNMENT CAAV 1942 Grapevine The Test... | |
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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 of... 
