 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 pàgines
...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, 1 will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition * * Memolrci Secretes de 1st Cour... | |
 | 1849 - 802 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pàgines
...the idea that I had taken an 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 precarious." . The acacias still flourish, as does the weeping willow wlûch he planted, and I need not add, that... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pàgines
...the idea that I had taken an 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 precarious." The acacias still flourish, as does the weeping willow which he planted, and I need not add, that the... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pàgines
...the idea that I had taken an 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 precarious." The acdcias still flourish, as does the weeping willow which he planted, and I need not add, that the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pàgines
...fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that 1 had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable...which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, oral least of five quartos. 1. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate eopy, has been sent... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pàgines
...fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that 1 had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable...life of the historian must be short and precarious." Gibbons Miscellaneous Works, vol. ip 255. Gibbon's time, however, was in general most exactly appropriated... | |
 | Richard Duppa - 1829 - 560 pàgines
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."* LUCERNE. Just out of the town of Lucerne is a monument to honour the memory of the Swiss who fell on... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pàgines
...from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first, emotions of joy on the ake those to be the same poets whom our Oglebies have...thau his carcass would be to his living body. There The historian adds two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six or even five quartos;... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1830 - 594 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...life of the historian must be short and precarious." The sentiment of regret thus breathed by Gibbon has been no less beautifully expressed in the verse... | |
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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, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must... 
