 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...  The Living Age - Pagina 151846Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 pagina’s
...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 - 302 pagina’s
...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 joy on the recovery...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 be the future... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 pagina’s
...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 the recovery...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... | |
 | Sarah Grand - 2000 - 606 pagina’s
...the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom . . . But my pride was soon humbled and a slow melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." When Sarah Grand came to the last page of ADNAM'S ORCHARD (Heinemann, 6s.) she must have realized in... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 pagina’s
...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 joy on the recovery...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 future date... | |
 | H.v. Morton - 2009 - 256 pagina’s
...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...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 tourist's visit... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 2003 - 390 pagina’s
...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 recovery...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 - 350 pagina’s
...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...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, the Decline... | |
 | 朱光潛 - 2006 - 232 pagina’s
...單的申文語句來譯繁複的西文語句。 這種困難的原因 很多， 姑舉幾個實例來說明: l.But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had teken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion; and that, whatsoever might be the future... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1879 - 451 pagina’s
...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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