 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided in friendship and esteem. The minister of Crassy soon afterwards died ; his stipend died with him ;... | |
 | 1863 - 844 pages
...attachment for Mademoiselle Susan Curchod, afterward Madame Necker : — " After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life." It is difficult to conceive of Gibbon's wound as a deep one, or of his struggle as painful. But Wilson,... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - English fiction - 1858 - 594 pages
..." after a painful struggle he yielded to his fate ; he sighed as a lover, he obeyed as a son ; his wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life." In a somewhat similar style of heartless propriety Mrs. Opie has versified the story of her dawn of... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - English fiction - 1858 - 422 pages
...painful struggle he yielded to his fate ; lie siyhed as a lover, he obeyed as a son ; his wound waa insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life." In a somewhat similar style of heartless propriety Mrs. Opie has versified the story of her dawn of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : [ 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 ;... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Women - 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 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... | |
 | Universalism - 1861 - 692 pages
...alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...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,... | |
 | 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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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. 
