 After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the...  Atkinson's Casket - Page 261833Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, an,l al nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first...freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pages
...country, the lake, and mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...the Lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was...freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...the Lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silyer orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was...freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 566 pages
...the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent." — " I will not," he adds, " dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...waters, and all nature was silent." — " I will not," he adds, " dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...[Lausanne], and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 pages
...the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was...freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken... | |
 | 1849 - 812 pages
...country, the lake, and mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and... | |
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