| John Aikin - 1803 - 646 pages
...painful struggle," he says, " I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life." No blame seems to have been imputed to him on this occasion. The lady was well indemnified for her... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;* 'my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;* my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...After a painful struggle I yielded to my fpte : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;* my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself;... | |
| 1830 - 336 pages
...After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;* my wound was insensibly healed "by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself;... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover; I obeyed as a son: my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself;... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son;* my wound was insensibly/ healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover; I obeyed as a son: my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself;... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pages
...painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son9 ; (8) my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son 9 ; (8) my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
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