 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1902 - 808 pages
...youth and passion were crushed, on my return, by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. 1 sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the Lady herself.... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1902 - 360 pages
...all else about him, has become classical. ' I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as 'a son.' He proceeds: 'My wound was insensibly ' healed by time, absence and the habits of a new life.' It is shocking. Never, surely, was love so flouted before. Gibbon is charitably supposed by some persons... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 512 pages
...strange alliance," and Gibbon himself was destitute and therefore helpless. " After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." The lady became famous as Madame Necker, and Gibbon never indulged again in any dream of matrimonial... | |
 | John N. Crawford - Authors, English - 1903 - 442 pages
...strange alliance and would not consent to it. " After a painful struggle," says the lymphatic Gibbon, " I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." It is pleasant to know that the beautiful girl was not wanting in suitors and that she soon afterward... | |
 | English periodicals - 1904 - 716 pages
...from tender memories of her. Gibbon did not make the faintest show of résistance to his father : " I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. My wound was...healed by time, absence and the habits of a new life." His words seem to describe the recovery from a scratch rather than a wound. We are all eager to sympathise... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 pages
...I was destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lever, I 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 tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1907 - 394 pages
...the lady married M. Necker, and became the mother of Madame de Stael. Gibbon himself says that— " My wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life : and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and chearfulness of the lady... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1908 - 328 pages
...all else about him, has become classical. 'I sighed as a lover, 'I obeyed as a son.' He proceeds : 'My ' wound was insensibly healed by time, ab'sence and the habits of a new life.' It is shocking. Never, surely, was love so flouted before. Gibbon is charitably supposed by some persons... | |
 | Francis Gribble - 1909 - 224 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,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 664 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,... | |
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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. 
