 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 of...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 4251867Full view - About this book
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 470 pages
...I will not," he adds, " dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the author might be short and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my taint. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsc-eitr might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short... | |
 | William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...silent. 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 spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlastmg leave of an old and agreeable companion,... | |
 | Biography - 1857 - 426 pages
...silent. 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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of rny fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy...the idea that I had taken an everlasting' leave of tin old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - Religion - 1991 - 420 pages
...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 - History - 1987 - 260 pages
...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 - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...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 - History - 1998 - 506 pages
...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... | |
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