 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 Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1846 - 318 pages
..."I will not," he adds, "dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of rny 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... | |
 | Civilization - 1846 - 506 pages
..." the last lines of the last page " of his immortal ' Decline and Fall of the Eoman Empire :' — " A sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." It is so, perhaps, with every mau who does for the last time what he has been long accustomed to do.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...nature was silent. 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...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... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - Switzerland - 1848 - 394 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... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 844 pages
...nature was silent. 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...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... | |
 | England - 1849 - 822 pages
...nature was silent. 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...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion; and that, whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian muet be short... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...was 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 fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short... | |
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