 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. GIBBON'S FIRST LOVE. I HESITATE, from the apprehension of ridicule, when I approach the delicate subject... | |
 | David Bogue - 1852 - 416 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." The house in which the two friends resided still bears the name of the Grotto, but the garden has been... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five quartos.... | |
 | 1854 - 794 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." The sentiment of regret thus breathed by Gibbon has been no less beautifully expressed in the verse... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pages
...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five quartos.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | 1855 - 364 pages
...everlasting leave of ai old and agreeable companion ; and tha whatsoever might be the future date o my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." After remaining four years at Lau sanne, Gibbon resolved to revisit Eng land and his friend Lord Sheffield,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." Mr. Grate's history is completed. Among many contemporary narratives remaining, or likely to remain unfinished,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsc-eitr might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." (' Life,' ch. x.) He returned for a few months to London, in order to superintend the publication of... | |
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But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must... 
