 But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must...  The Quarterly Review - Page 203edited by - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." Thus was brought to a close this noble work, embracing a period of thirteen centuries, and connecting... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." (' Life,' ch. x.) He returned for a few months to London, in order to superintend the publication of... | |
 | Henry Coppée - English literature - 1873 - 498 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." OTHER CONTRIBUTORS TO HISTORY. James Bonvell, 1740-1795: he was the son of a Scottish judge called... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 456 pages
...consequently thought right to conclude his series with Lord Plunket : and nothing remained for him but to take a pathetic leave of his book, bid it good...up in his ' Lives ; ' which he almost endows with fresh vitality as he parts from them : — ' I cannot part with those who have been my companions for... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 484 pages
...Joseph Napier, the Right Hon. Francis Blackburn, the Right Hon. Abraham Brewster, and Lord O'Hagan. and commend it to the charitable construction of his...up in his ' Lives ; ' which he almost endows with fresh vitality as he parts from them : — ' I cannot part with those who have been my companions for... | |
 | Foster Barham Zincke - Switzerland - 1874 - 394 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.' It was a right instinct that led him to 1 Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works, vol. i, pp. 198 and 255. LAUSANNE... | |
 | Foster Barham Zincke - Switzerland - 1874 - 402 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.' It was a right instinct that led him to 1 Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works, vol. i. pp. 198 and 255. record... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1874 - 446 pages
...everlasting leave of an old and and agreeable companion ; and that, whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." He died in London in 1794. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Human Empire (206-209) is one... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 pages
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.' Gibbon was then fifty years of age. SIR WALTER SCOTT. Sir Walter Scott, when a boy, gave very slight... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." Gibbon went to London to superintend the publication of the last three volumes of his work, and then... | |
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