 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...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... | |
 | 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 794
...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... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 988
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...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,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...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.... | |
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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... 
