 After laying down my pen 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...  Odd Fellows' Literary Casket - Page 1441854Full view - About this book
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 pages
...last 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...silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy in the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. The age in which Gibbon... | |
 | English periodicals - 1897 - 1044 pages
...passionless nature Mr. Gibbon may have had, but it must have been also a singularly amiable one. ' I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.' Throughout his life Gibbon thoroughly understood his own position. As a man of letters he had no vulgar... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - History - 1987 - 260 pages
...last 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...and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky 19 was serene; the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent.... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - Fiction - 1992 - 340 pages
...Edward Gibbon, for example, upon completion of his great history, noted: "I will not dissemble the firm emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame." As is now known, about Gibbons's fame there was no "perhaps" whatsoever. Gibbons's fame arrived on... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...last page, in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and .ill nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions ofjoy on the recovery of my freedom,... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - History - 1998 - 506 pages
...the early postwar years stand out as a time of lonely struggle in a land in which all was strange. 'I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, . . . But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...eleven and twelve that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. ... I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...my fame. But my 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... | |
 | H.v. Morton - Travel - 2009 - 256 pages
...last page in a summer house of my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. 1 will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment... | |
 | Albert Barnes - History - 1879 - 451 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...the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not describe the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of... | |
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