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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. "
Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham - Page 218
by Englishmen - 1836
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : I...insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a newr life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the...
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The Queens of Society

Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1860 - 532 pages
...home refused to allow his son to marry a girl without a penny. "After a painful struggle," he says, "I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover : I obeyed...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life." In other words, he was not in love. • The rejected damsel was too much of a Spartan to let this first...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle,! yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; niy wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 30

1861 - 692 pages
...not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I...herself, and my love subsided into friendship and esteem. The minister of Crafly soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him ; his daughter retired to Geneva,...
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The book of days, a miscellany of popular antiquities, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 pages
...not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. l ` cheerfubaess of the lady herself, and my love subsided into friendship and esteem.' The subsequent...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : t sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was...cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Grassy soon afterwards died; his stipend died with him ;...
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A Century of Anecdote from 1760-1860, Volume 2

John Timbs - 1864 - 374 pages
...not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I...and my love subsided into friendship and esteem." Susan Curchod eventually married M. Necker, the minister ; and they were the parents of Madame de Stael...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to rny fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my...cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Grassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him ;...
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The Galaxy, Volume 17

William Conant Church - 1874 - 876 pages
...not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I...cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem." Would the readers of the " Nouvelle Heloise," whose first ideas of Lake...
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Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Volume 12

Belgravia - 1870 - 558 pages
...That strange irony, sometimes unintentional with him, had grown into a habit ; and so he goes on : ' My wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and...and my love subsided into friendship and esteem.' Sensible Mademoiselle Curchod ! But she had made a large circle of friends, among whom this desertion...
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