 | 1828 - 562 pages
...establishment of uiv 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...future fate of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious!" Now mark the difference of NJMKOD'S style, though [ fear I we can not... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pages
...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...companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and precarious. I will add two facts,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pages
...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...companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and precarious. I will add two facts,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...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...companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...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 everlasting leave...future fate of my history, the life of the HISTORIAN might be short and precarious." Of the merit of the execution of the several Volumes of this extensive... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...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...companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and precarious. I wfll add two facts which... | |
 | 1849 - 802 pages
...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 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."... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 pages
...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...future fate of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious!" How much do Haller and Hotze, so celebrated by Zimmermann and Lavater,... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...establishment of my fame. But my pride wa« 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 whatever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon bumbled, 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 whatever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."... | |
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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... 
