 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 páginas
...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...history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.1 It is possible to read this passage as musing on the interrelatedness of composure and... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 2003 - 390 páginas
...fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that l had 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 be short and precarious.' Diderot and d'Holbach.... | |
 | Willa Cather - 2006 - 904 páginas
...approached the end of his study "a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion,...life of the historian must be short and precarious" (180). 94 buffalo-peas: Astralagus crassicarpus is a perennial herb with blue or light purple flowers.... | |
 | 朱光潛 - 2006 - 232 páginas
...pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had teken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion;...History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.@E. Gibbon. 2. This is why those periods have been so exceptional in history in which men... | |
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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... 
