 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...I soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance. 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. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to nivfate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son;* my wound...insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new lifeT^ My cure was* accelerated by a faithfid report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son9 ; (8) my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 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 as a son9 ; (8) my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 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 as a son 9 ; (8) my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 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 as a son 9 ; (8) my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 458 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...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 482 pages
...painful struggle, I yielded to my fate (his father having objected to the match). I sighed as a lover; 1 obeyed as a son. My wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
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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. 
