 | 1855 - 364 páginas
...will not dissemble th first emotions of joy on recovery of m freedom,$and, perhaps, the establishmen of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy wa spread over my mind, by the idea that had taken an everlasting leave of ai old and agreeable companion... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 páginas
...waters, and all nature was silent." — " I will not," he adds, " dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment...agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." (' Life,' ch. x.) He returned... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 páginas
...moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and, perhaps,...leave of an 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."... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1991 - 420 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 páginas
...had, but it must have been also a singularly amiable one. ' I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.' Throughout his life Gibbon thoroughly understood his own position. As a man of letters he had no vulgar... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - 1992 - 340 páginas
...Gibbon, for example, upon completion of his great history, noted: "I will not dissemble the firm emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame." As is now known, about Gibbons's fame there was no "perhaps" whatsoever. Gibbons's fame arrived on... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 páginas
...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 páginas
...reflected from the waters, and .ill nature was 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... | |
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... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not... 
