| Hunting - 1828 - 562 pages
...j*»y on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of uiv fame. But my pride was soon humbled; and a sober melancholy was spread over...leave of an old and agreeable companion ; and that, whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious!"... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...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...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.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...establishment of my fame. But my pride 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, and that whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...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...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.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 548 pages
...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...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.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...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...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.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humhled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken ли everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...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...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.... | |
| England - 1849 - 802 pages
...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...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."... | |
| John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...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...leave of an old and agreeable companion ; and that, whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the HISTORIAN might be short and precarious."... | |
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