 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pàgines
...not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober...companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pàgines
...not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober...companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which... | |
 | 1854 - 616 pàgines
...dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober...companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short und precarious." Ile, a man, wrote for... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pàgines
...not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober...companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1991 - 420 pàgines
...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...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." For me, the joy and the melancholy are more than matched by the gratitude I sense to all those who... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pàgines
...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...was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pàgines
...lost. It is also the life work of an author who loses a large part of himself when it is finished: "My pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 pàgines
...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...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion.' Gibbon, E., Autobiography, p. 205. \ CtV\l_kAN INTERNMENT CAAV 1942 Grapevine The Test of War* (Part... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pàgines
...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...companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. For Gibbon, as for his... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 pàgines
...dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober...was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable [sic] companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future... | |
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, 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 leave... 
