...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...

...doubt that Gibbon prefers it cool rather than hot. Of his disappointment in love he goes on to say, "My wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself"...

...return, by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. I sighed äs a lover, I obeyed äs a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life [...],"189 heißt es in C, und in E nur noch unvermittelt: "A lover's wishes reluctantly yielded to...

...helpless. After a painful struggle 1 yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister ot Grassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Geneva, where,...

...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 Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the...

...That strange irony, sometimes unintentional with him, had grown into a habit ; and so he goes on : ' My wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided into friendship and esteem.' Sensible Mademoiselle Curchod ! But she had made a large circle of friends,...

...mv fn'.e : I fighed as a lover, T obeyed as a fon ; my wound was infenfibly heakd by time, abfence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cbeerfulnefs of the lady herfelf, and my. love fubfided in friendship- and efteem. The minifter of...

...antithesis: " 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." The historian tells us, in touching upon this passage of his life, that he " hesitates from an apprehension...

...return, by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. 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; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and chearfulness of the Lady herself....