 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 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,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 512 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 its a son: my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 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 ;3 my wound was 3 See CEuvres de Rousseau, torn, xxxiii. p. 88, 89, octavo edition. AB an author, I... | |
 | Biography - 1855 - 364 pages
...myself destitute ami helpless. After a painful struggle I Г 'elded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, und the hahits of a new life." Our readers will remember that Mademoiselle Curchod ultimately became... | |
 | William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...I soon discovered that my father would not hear to 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;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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 ; my wound was insensibly healed by tinre, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure •was accelerated by a faithful report of the... | |
 | 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...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;... | |
 | American essays - 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... | |
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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. 
