 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 Seiten
...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,...subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassey soon afterwards died ; bis stipend died with him : his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by... | |
 | 1847 - 482 Seiten
...painful struggle, I yielded to my fate (his father having objected to the match). I sighed as a lover; 1 obeyed as a son. My wound was insensibly healed by...My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 Seiten
...his consent, I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was...subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Cressy soon afterwards died; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 Seiten
...strange alliance. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover; I obeyed its a son: my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence,...cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided into friendship and esteem. A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good... | |
 | 1855 - 364 Seiten
...myself destitute ami helpless. After a painful struggle I Г 'elded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, und the hahits of a new life." Our readers will remember that Mademoiselle Curchod ultimately became... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 Seiten
...my father would not hear to this strange alliance. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover ; I obeyed as a son : my wound...cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided into friendship and esteem. A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. 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 tinre, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure •was accelerated by a faithful report of the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound...subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Geneva, where, by... | |
 | 1863 - 844 Seiten
...Mademoiselle Susan Curchod, afterward Madame Necker : — " After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life." It is difficult to conceive of Gibbon's wound as a deep one, or of his struggle as painful. But Wilson,... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 594 Seiten
..." after a painful struggle he yielded to his fate ; he sighed as a lover, he obeyed as a son ; his wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life." In a somewhat similar style of heartless propriety Mrs. Opie has versified the story of her dawn of... | |
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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, and my love subsided in friendship... 
