 I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was...  The Age of Johnson (1748-1798) - Σελίδα 130των Thomas Seccombe - 1902 - 366 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1852 - 218 σελίδες
...silver orb of the moon was reflected upon the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame." Fountains, brooks, and rivers, impart some of the fairest aspects to the landscape, and stamp many... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 σελίδες
...silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy, on the recovery of my freedom,...my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion,... | |
 | 1854 - 794 σελίδες
...silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom,...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... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1991 - 420 σελίδες
...volume: "I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom," Gibbon acknowledged; "but my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." For me, the joy and the melancholy are more... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 σελίδες
...Mr. Gibbon may have had, but it must have been also a singularly amiable one. ' I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.' Throughout his life Gibbon thoroughly understood his own position. As a man of letters he had no vulgar... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 σελίδες
...lays down his pen, cherishes prospects of freedom and fame, but then contemplates mortality and loss: "But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - 1992 - 340 σελίδες
...Edward Gibbon, for example, upon completion of his great history, noted: "I will not dissemble the firm emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame." As is now known, about Gibbons's fame there was no "perhaps" whatsoever. Gibbons's fame arrived on... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 σελίδες
...all was strange. 'I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, . . . But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion.' Gibbon, E., Autobiography, p. 205. \ CtV\l_kAN... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 σελίδες
...reflected from the waters, and .ill nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions ofjoy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sobre melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 σελίδες
...silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom...that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable [sic] companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of... | |
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