 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...  Literary Port Folio - Sida 771830Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 sidor
...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...be the future date of my history, the life of the author might be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition... | |
 | 1854 - 794 sidor
...was silent. 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...precarious." The sentiment of regret thus breathed by Gibbon has been no less beautifully expressed in the verse of Lord Byron, who has made Tasso lament in the... | |
 | 1854 - 428 sidor
...was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon...life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five quartos.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 sidor
...was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon...life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1991 - 420 sidor
...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...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 those who... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 sidor
...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 - 1989 - 276 sidor
...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 - 1998 - 506 sidor
...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...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion.' Gibbon, E., Autobiography, p. 205. \ CtV\l_kAN INTERNMENT CAAV 1942 Grapevine The Test of War* (Part... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 sidor
...silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions ofjoy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sobre melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 sidor
...was silent. 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...was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable [sic] companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future... | |
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