 | 1917 - 436 pàgines
...sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." From June, 1757, when Gibbon first saw Susan and wrote in his journal, a little precipitately, that... | |
 | John Louis Haney - 1920 - 472 pàgines
...wrote Gibbon afterwards. "My wound was insensibly healed by time, and the habits of a new life; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the...tranquillity and cheerfulness of the Lady herself." The tranquil Lady who so fortunately escaped this impossible lover eventually married the distinguished... | |
 | Helen Clergue - 1922 - 234 pàgines
...sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." Blind Madame du Deffand, tapping... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1924 - 862 pàgines
...sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful...herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.' They remained constant friends in later life, and the former lover during a visit to Paris (1765) visited... | |
 | 1827 - 594 pàgines
...sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful...love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister ot Grassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Geneva, where,... | |
 | 152 pàgines
...sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful...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... | |
 | 1870 - 584 pàgines
...into a habit ; and so he goes on : ' My wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful...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,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 612 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 pàgines
...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. Her equal behaviour under the tryals of indigence and prosperity... | |
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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. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship... 
