 | William Conant Church - American literature - 1874 - 876 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,... | |
 | 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 the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...some impression on a virtuous heart," his father would not hear of it. " After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover ; I obeyed as a son." The application of such a style to such a subject paints the man almost as well as the black paper... | |
 | Charles Knight - Autobiography - 1868 - 506 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;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1869 - 462 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,... | |
 | Theology - 1870 - 604 pages
...some impression on a virtuous heart," his father would not hear of it. " After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover ; I obeyed as a son." The application of such a style to such a subject paints the man almost as well as the black paper... | |
 | 1873 - 480 pages
...had told him to lay aside a favorite toy. He says, " I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my mind was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful repo t of the I a-iqj 'ty and cheerfulness of the lady herself;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 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...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;... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...wife. " I sighed," says he, with a philosophical equilibrium which had now become his characteristic, "as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly...healed by time, absence and the habits of a new life." The lady•was afterwards married to a native of Geneva, a rich banker of Paris, M. ISTecker, who as... | |
 | American literature - 1878 - 684 pages
...at the command of his father, and " sighed as a lover," while he " obeyed as a son," and how his " wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life." Mr. Howells' i-ssay, as usual, is one of the most charming portions ot the work. " Little Classic"... | |
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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. 
