 I took several turns in a 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...  Odd Fellows' Literary Casket - Page 1441854Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...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, 1 will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition * * Memolrci Secretes de 1st Cour... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment...life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | England - 1849 - 802 pages
...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." — (/.:/'', p. 255, 8vo edition.) Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity, modesty,... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...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 acdcias still flourish, as does the weeping willow which he planted, and I need not add, that the scene... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...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 the... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...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 which he planted, and I need not add, that the scene... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread ovei my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting...life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread ovei my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting...life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...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... | |
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