 After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the...  Atkinson's Casket - Pagina 261833Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 pagina’s
...the lake, and the mountains. The air was ternperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pagina’s
...the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my taint. But my pride was soon humbled, and... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 pagina’s
...the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent." — " I will not," he adds, " dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pagina’s
...passionless nature Mr. Gibbon may have had, but it must have been also a singularly amiable one. ' I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.' Throughout his life Gibbon thoroughly understood his own position. As a man of letters he had no vulgar... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - 1992 - 340 pagina’s
...Edward Gibbon, for example, upon completion of his great history, noted: "I will not dissemble the firm emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame." As is now known, about Gibbons's fame there was no "perhaps" whatsoever. Gibbons's fame arrived on... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 pagina’s
...the early postwar years stand out as a time of lonely struggle in a land in which 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 was spread over my mind, by the idea that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pagina’s
...reflected from the waters, and .ill nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions ofjoy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sobre melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 pagina’s
...country the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene; the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was...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... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 pagina’s
...eleven and twelve that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. ... I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancoly was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 pagina’s
...the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was...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... | |
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