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" 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. "
General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent ... - Page 393
by John Aikin - 1803
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...alliance, and that 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...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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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 pages
...his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to ray fete ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habifs of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...alliance, and that 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...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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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pages
...destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I oheyed 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,...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...without his consent. I was myself destitute and Helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fpte : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;* my wound...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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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 14

1830 - 336 pages
...alliance, and that 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...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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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...that without bis consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded tu my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;t my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. M> cure was accelerated...
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The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science ...

1834 - 602 pages
...soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance. After a painful struggle, 1 yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover ; I obeyed...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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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 1

Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...I soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover; I obeyed...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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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and ...

Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...alliance, and that 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...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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