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The Manchester Quarterly, Volume 27

1908 - 434 pages
...labour, had finished his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," he writes in his Autobiography : " I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom and perhaps of the establishment of my fame, but my pride was soon tumbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over...
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Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, Volume 68

1910 - 1176 pages
...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...silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy in the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. The age in which Gibbon...
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The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 5 ...

Jaroslav Pelikan - 1991 - 420 pages
...multivolume work of history, the bittersweet feeling that comes with the completion of the final volume: "I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom," Gibbon acknowledged; "but my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind,...
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Gibbon’s Solitude: The Inward World of the Historian

W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pages
...which commands a prospect of the country the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky 19 was serene; the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. (M, 180) This set piece partakes of two complementary traditions, reflecting the separate feelings...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 28 Selected Chapters

Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pages
...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...orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and .ill nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions ofjoy on the recovery of my freedom,...
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The Romantic Subject in Autobiography: Rousseau and Goethe

Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 pages
...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...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,...
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John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in ...

John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 pages
...last page in a summer-house in my garden. ... I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment...my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancoly was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable...
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Gibbon and the 'Watchmen of the Holy City': The Historian and His Reputation ...

David Womersley - 2002 - 472 pages
...turns in a batrau, or covered walk of Acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky...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,...
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A Traveller In Rome

H.v. Morton - 2009 - 256 pages
...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...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. 1 will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment...
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Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century ...

Albert Barnes - 1879 - 451 pages
...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...the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not describe the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of...
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