| Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Biography - 1846 - 566 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 whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1846 - 318 pages
..."dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of rny 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 whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must... | |
| Civilization - 1846 - 506 pages
..." the last lines of the last page " of his immortal ' Decline and Fall of the Eoman Empire :' — " A sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." It is so, perhaps, with every mau who does for the last time what he has been long accustomed... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 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... | |
| Baptist Wriothesley Noel - Switzerland - 1848 - 394 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... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my ether it were the stone, or some surfeit or cold,...them all three. But when I came to your lordship's companion; and that, whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 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 fate of my history, the life of the historian must... | |
| England - 1849 - 822 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, whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian muet... | |
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