 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...return, by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and • cheerfulness of the Lady... | |
 | Mark Gambier-Parry - France - 1913 - 416 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...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." ever really loved her, does Gibbon dismiss from his mind the remembrance of his engagement to Suzanne.... | |
 | Frank Fox - Switzerland - 1914 - 290 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...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. Gibbon was a very pompous gentleman, but a gentleman. He might otherwise, without departing from the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...hopeless. 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,...cure was accelerated " by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the " lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.... | |
 | Literature - 1917 - 436 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...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." From June, 1757, when Gibbon first saw Susan and wrote in his journal, a little precipitately, that... | |
 | James Finch Royster, Stith Thompson - Composition (English) - 1919 - 232 pages
...conjunctions. EXAMPLE 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. b. Alternation between two or more ideas. EXAMPLE We must act now, or we shall always be sorry. The... | |
 | John Louis Haney - English literature - 1920 - 472 pages
...wrote Gibbon afterwards. "My wound was insensibly healed by time, and the habits of a new life; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the...tranquillity and cheerfulness of the Lady herself." The tranquil Lady who so fortunately escaped this impossible lover eventually married the distinguished... | |
 | Helen Clergue - France - 1922 - 234 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...accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." Blind Madame du Deffand, tapping... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1924 - 862 pages
...later headds, '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... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English essays - 1923 - 430 pages
...all else about him, has become classical. " I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." He proceeds : " My wound was insensibly healed by time, absence and the habits of a new life." It is shocking. Never, surely, was love so flouted before. Gibbon is charitably supposed by some persons... | |
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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... 
