 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, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 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.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 pages
...recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon hum. bled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by...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 five quarto... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 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.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Literature - 1840 - 382 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.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - Literature - 1840 - 386 pages
...mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and thai whatsoever might be the future date of my History,...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.... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Commercial geography - 1842 - 968 pages
...melancholy was spread over my mind, by the Idea that 1 had taken an everlasting leave of an old anil agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be...life of the historian must be short and precarious." When Inglls visited Lausanne a few years ago, the library of the historian is said to have been complete,... | |
 | 1843 - 602 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." Yes! — there we were in the self-same garden. The acacias still waved their trold"iiliair; the summerhouse... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 612 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." Yes ! — there we were in the self-same garden. The acacias still waved their golden hair; the summerhouse... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...laying down my pen, I took severa! turns in a berceau, or covered Residence of Gibbon at Lausanne. r joyless bed, } .aken wives and mothers never wed,...tear ~ .nd crippled age with more than" rolled. H historian adds two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six or even five quartos... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride wa,soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spreaJ e, And Jura answers, through precarioui.'* The historian adds two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six or... | |
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