 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 my everlasting leave...  Cowley (1618) to Burns (1759) - Page 715by Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Hunting - 1828 - 562 pages
...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...future fate of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious!" Now mark the difference of NJMKOD'S style, though [ fear I we can not... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...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, 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 - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...was soon hum* bled, and a sober melancholy was spread over mjr imind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion,...life of the historian must be short and precarious, 1 will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition * * Memolrci Secretes de 1st Cour... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 548 pages
...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, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and precarious. I will add two facts,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...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, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and precarious. I will add two facts,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...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...future fate of my history, the life of the HISTORIAN might be short and precarious." Of the merit of the execution of the several Volumes of this extensive... | |
 | England - 1849 - 802 pages
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion; and that, whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." — (/.:/'', p. 255, 8vo edition.) Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity, modesty,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...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, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and precarious. I wfll add two facts which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...pride was soon humbled, and a soher melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion,...fate of my History, the life of the historian must he short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six,... | |
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