 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 páginas
...last sentence of the ' Decline and Fall ' on his terrace at Lausanne, ' a sober melancholy 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 fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.'... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 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." He went over to England bearing the manuscript of the last 3 volumes with him, and on his 51st birthday,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 páginas
...the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and л 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 must be short and precarious." The French revolution... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1991 - 420 páginas
...freedom," Gibbon acknowledged; "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." 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 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...life of the historian must be short and precarious" (M, 180). The Decline and Fall, his offspring, has also become his closest, oldest, most agreeable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 páginas
...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...life of the historian must be short and precarious. For Gibbon, as for his admired classical authors, writing was always a work of conscious artistry.... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 páginas
...recovery of my freedom, . . . 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.' Gibbon, E., Autobiography, p. 205. \ CtV\l_kAN INTERNMENT CAAV 1942 Grapevine The Test of War* (Part... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 páginas
...pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancoly 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." See Edward Gibbon (1737-94), Memoirs of My Life (1827), ed. George A. Bonnard (New York: Funk and Wagnalls,... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 páginas
...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...life of the historian must be short and precarious. (180) This is the high point of Gibbon's life, in the recording of which his public identity and his... | |
 | Sarah Grand - 2000 - 606 páginas
...on recovery of my freedom . . . But my pride was soon humbled and a slow melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." When Sarah Grand came to the last page of ADNAM'S ORCHARD (Heinemann, 6s.) she must have realized in... | |
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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... 
