 I will 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 melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an...  The National magazine and general review - Pàgina 409editat per Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1855 - 364 pàgines
...will not dissemble th first emotions of joy on recovery of m freedom,$and, perhaps, the establishmen of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy wa spread over my mind, by the idea that had taken an everlasting leave of ai old and agreeable companion... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 pàgines
...of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent." — " I will not," he adds, " dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of...melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pàgines
...reflected from 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...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... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 pàgines
...from 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...my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlastmg leave of an old and agreeable companion,... | |
 | 1857 - 456 pàgines
...J Memoirs, p. 166. and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment...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... | |
 | 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 was 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 leave of an old... | |
 | 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 was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion.' Gibbon, E., Autobiography, p.... | |
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