 | Thomas Hitchcock - 1891 - 256 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,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle v I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; 1 my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 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 as a son ; 1 my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 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 as a son ; l my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 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 as a sorif1 my~\vound was msens1bl^J1g.ilffl hy timn^ahsencc, and the habits ~of a new life. My- cure was... | |
 | Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 448 pages
...made some impression on a virtuous heart,' his father would not hear of it. 'After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover ; I obeyed as a son.' l The application of such a style to such a subject paints the man almost as well as the black paper... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1895 - 66 pages
...English parent.' It will be seen that these words are not in our printed text. Then he goes on : ' I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son : my wound...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life, &c.' This phrase is taken out of its context, and by the editor is dextrously inserted into the midst... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1895 - 378 pages
...English parent.' It will be seen that these words are not in our printed text. Then he goes on : ' I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son : my wound...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life, &c.' This phrase is taken out of its context, and by the editor is dexterously inserted into the midst... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 pages
...of youth and passion were crushed, on my return, by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life ; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and chearfulness of the Lady... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 pages
...of youth and passion were crushed, on my return, by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life ; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and chearfulness of the Lady... | |
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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. 
