 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...life, which he found m England, had their usual effect ; his passion vanished. " My cure," he says, " was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity...and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." The probability, indeed, that he and Mdlle. Curchod would ever see each other again, must have seemed remote... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...son; my wound sensibly healed by time, absence, anil the habits of a new life. My cure was accelby e subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterwards his stipend died with him,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1887 - 1040 pages
...and the habits of a new Ufe. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity iind cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him : his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 866 pages
...sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habite of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. ' They remained constant friends in later life, and the former lover during a visit to Paris (1764)... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 848 pages
...he adds, ' After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.' They remained constant friends in later life, and the former lover during a visit to Paris (1765) visited... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle v I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; 1 my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...afterwards died ; his stipend died with him. His daughter retire^ to Geneva, where, by teaching young ladies, she earned a hard subsistence for herself and her... | |
 | Thomas Hitchcock - Biography - 1891 - 274 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...friendship and esteem. The minister of Grassy soon afterward died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by teaching young... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; 1 my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him. His daughter retired to Geneva, where, by... | |
 | Thomas Hitchcock - Biography - 1891 - 256 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterward died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1895 - 66 pages
...these words are not in our printed text. Then he goes on : ' I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son : my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life, &c.' This phrase is taken out of its context, and by the editor is dextrously inserted into the midst... | |
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After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of... 
