 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 páginas
...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...companion; and that, whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious!" How much do Haller and... | |
 | 1823 - 592 páginas
...the establishment of my fame. But my pride wa« soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had 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 be short and precarious."... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 páginas
...the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon bumbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had 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 be short and precarious."... | |
 | 1823 - 592 páginas
...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 an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 páginas
...the idea that I had 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 be short and precarious." . The acacias still flourish, as does the weeping willow wlûch he planted, and I need not add, that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 páginas
...fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that 1 had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable...which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, oral least of five quartos. 1. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate eopy, has been sent... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 páginas
...fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that 1 had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable...life of the historian must be short and precarious." Gibbons Miscellaneous Works, vol. ip 255. Gibbon's time, however, was in general most exactly appropriated... | |
 | Richard Duppa - 1829 - 560 páginas
...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 an old and agreeable companion, and whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."*... | |
 | 1830 - 400 páginas
...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...life of the historian must be short and precarious." The sentiment of regret thus breathed by Gibbon has been no less beautifully expressed in the verse... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over . dull translation, thau his carcass would be to his living body. There The historian adds two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six or even five quartos;... | |
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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... 
