 | 1883 - 836 pages
...strange alliance," and then follows the sentence which has lost him in the eyes of some persons. " After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." What else he was to do under the circumstances does not appear. He was wholly dependent on his father,... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 406 pages
...banns. Mr. Gibbon despatches the rest of the business very quietly : " On my return to England I found that my father would not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his support I was destitute and helpless. I sighed as a lover ; I obeyed as a son." The reader will note... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pages
...dream of felicity; my return to England I soon discovered (hat my father would not hear of this • Ҋ \ ;oY q L [: j} D/H ! 3 A j`#8M ~{ ' } \!̄ B "÷ "n Q ill struggle, I yielded to my fate; 1 sighed an a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound sensibly healed... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1886 - 416 pages
...emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. ... At Grassier and Lausanne I indulged my dream of felicity ; but...my fate ; I sighed as a lover; I obeyed as a son." Gibbon never married, but retained his life-long friendship and admiration for Madame Necker. It was... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1886 - 412 pages
...emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. ... At Grassier and Lausanne I indulged my dream of felicity ; but...helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate ; 1 sighed as a lover ; I obeyed as a sou." Gibbon never married, but retained his life-long friendship... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 1040 pages
...that my father would not hear »f this strange alliance, and that, without his consent, I was myseli destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I...to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ;3 my wound was 1 See Œuvrea de Rousseau, torn, uxiii. p. 88, 89, octavo editiou. As an author, I... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 796 pages
...soon discovered that his father would not hear of this alliance, and he thus related the sequence: " After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate. ... I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." From England he wrote to Mademoiselle Curchod breaking off the engagement. Perhaps it is because of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...Zamore; De St. Cierge, Gusman ; M. de Gentil, Monteze ; and Madame Denys, Alzire. heart. At Grassy and Lausanne I indulged my dream of felicity, but...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 - 456 pages
...Zamore ; De St. Cierge, Gusman ; M. de Gentil, Monteze ; and Madame Denys, Alzire. heart. At Grassy and Lausanne I indulged my dream of felicity, but...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 - 454 pages
...Zamore ; De St. Cierge, Gusman ; M. de Gentil, Monteze ; and Madame Denys, Alzire. heart. At Grassy and Lausanne I indulged my dream of felicity, but...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... | |
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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. 
