| John Meredith Read - Bern (Switzerland) - 1897 - 640 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,... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 598 pages
...father, however, would not consent to their marriage, and, writes Gibbon," 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." Mademoiselle Curchod in time became the wife of Jacques Necker, the famous French Minister of Finance,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...hopes of youth and passion were crushed on my return by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. I sighed as a lover; I obeyed as a son ; my wound...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life ; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford - History - 1899 - 446 pages
...neighboring pastor, but his father forbade the alliance. In his own words, " 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." The lady became the wife of Jacques Necker, a Genevese banker, afterwards famous as the minister of... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 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." And the young lady ? She became the wife of Necker, the famous financier and minister of France, and... | |
| Robert McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 644 pages
...will not run smooth ! The elder Gibbon would not hear of such a connection. 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. The lady lived to become the wife of Necker, the famous finance minister of France, and in years to... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1900 - 398 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 l ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated... | |
| Francis Henry Gribble - Geneva (Switzerland) - 1901 - 446 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,... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1902 - 254 pages
...strange alliance," " 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 tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1902 - 238 pages
...strange alliance," " 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 tranquility and cheerfulness of the lady herself,... | |
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