 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pàgines
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and lui nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and л sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 pàgines
...sky was serene, the 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 establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pàgines
...in a covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy, on...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame." He continues : " I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in composition, of six or at least... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pàgines
...in a covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy, on...recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of myfame." He continues : " I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in composition, of six or... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 pàgines
...reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy in the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. The age in which Gibbon was born largely contributed to give direction to his pursuits and lastingly... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pàgines
...passionless nature 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - 1992 - 340 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 pàgines
...the early postwar years stand out as a time of lonely struggle in a land in which 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 was spread over my mind, by the idea that... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 pàgines
...sky was serene; the 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 establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting... | |
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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... 
