 | 1849 - 600 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 fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."-Lt/«,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 366 páginas
...serene, the moon was shining on the waters, and I will not dissemble my joy. But, when I reflected that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion," Sfc. There must always be something melancholy in the moment of separation, as all have more or less... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 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...have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or even five quartos. 1. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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...have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or even five quartos. 1. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 566 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."... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 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." (" Life," ch. x.) He returned for a few months to London, in order to superintend the publication of... | |
 | 1846 - 502 páginas
...of his immortal ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire :' — " A sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." It is so, perhaps, with every man who does for the last time what he has been long accustomed to do.... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 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." (' Life,' ch. x.) He returned for a few months to London, in order to superintend the publication of... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 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." Gibbon's early education was defective, although his amount of general reading before he went to Oxford... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 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." It was a natural sadness. Men of the world often outlive the sources of their enjoyment ; and at best... | |
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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... 
