 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 London Magazine - Page 2821827Full view - About this book
 | England - 1922 - 874 pages
...fruitless love affair with Mile, de Curchod. " My cure was accelerated," writes Gibbon in his memoirs, " by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself " ; but the report was perhaps not so faithful as he liked to imagine, for a Swiss pastor who knew... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I oheyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time,...love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Grassy soon afterward died; his stipend died with him; his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...without his consent. I was myself destitute and Helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fpte : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;* my wound...love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Grassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Geneva, where,... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Grassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Geneva, where,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...that without bis consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded tu my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;t my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. M> cure was accelerated... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...on my return to England, I soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance. After a painful struggle, 1 yielded to my fate. I...cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided into friendship and esteem. A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva) had the good fortune and good... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover; I obeyed...cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided into friendship and esteem. A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Grassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him : his daughter retired to Geneva, where,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover; I obeyed...cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided into friendship and esteem. A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to nivfate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son;* my wound...insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new lifeT^ My cure was* accelerated by a faithfid report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady... | |
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