 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 pages
...Lausanne, 'a sober melancholy spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave aof an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatever...bound up in his Lives ; which he almost endows with vitality as he parts from them : — ' I cannot part with those who have been my companions for nearly... | |
 | 1871 - 550 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. * * * The rational pride of an author may be offended rather than nattered by vague indiscriminate... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 pages
...everlasting 1еато of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might lie the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which liare seldom occurred in the composition of six, or even five tjuartos.... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 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." Thus was brought to a close this noble work, embracing a period of thirteen centuries, and connecting... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1873 - 498 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." OTHER CONTRIBUTORS TO HISTORY. James Bonvell, 1740-1795: he was the son of a Scottish judge called... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 456 pages
...Plunket : and nothing remained for him but to take a pathetic leave of his book, bid it good speed, and commend it to the charitable construction of his...nearly half a lifetime, without deep anxiety as to how they shall be received by the extensive acquaintances to whom I now entrust them, happily under the... | |
 | Foster Barham Zincke - 1874 - 402 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.' It was a right instinct that led him to 1 Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works, vol. i. pp. 198 and 255. record... | |
 | Foster Barham Zincke - 1874 - 394 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.' It was a right instinct that led him to 1 Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works, vol. i, pp. 198 and 255. LAUSANNE... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 pages
...everlasting leave of an old and and agreeable companion ; and that, whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." He died in London in 1794. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Human Empire (206-209) is one... | |
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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... 
