 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - Страниц: 506
...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... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - Страниц: 302
...temperate, the sky was serene; the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of...melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable [sic] companion, and that, whatsoever might... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - Страниц: 470
...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...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... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - Страниц: 472
...temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of...melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the... | |
 | H.v. Morton - 2009 - Страниц: 434
...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...melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken leave of an old and agreeable companion. . . .* Gibbon, like Byron, made no more than a... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 2003 - Страниц: 390
...his final volume in 1788, Gibbon bade a fond farewell to his readers, and to his great project: 'l will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the...melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that l had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the... | |
 | Jeremy D. Popkin - 2005 - Страниц: 350
...up the mixed feelings that this achievement inspired: "I will not dissemble the first emotions of my joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the...melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion" (180). Like many historical projects,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1879 - Страниц: 451
...silver orb of the moon was reflected from 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 my fame," etc.—Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq., vol. i., p. 170, ed. Dublin, 1796. In illustration... | |
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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 waters, and all nature was... 
