 | American literature - 1881 - 884 pages
...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1881 - 842 pages
...The words in which he narrates the end of the episode are very well known. " After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate. I sighed as a lover; I obeyed as a son." In this fine antithesis the reader will not, we fear, see much impression of real feeling. A young... | |
 | Haussonville (comte d') - Intellectuals - 1882 - 344 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 l ady herself,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 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;... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 414 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,... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...then follows the sentence which has lost him in the eyes of some persons. " After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." What else he was to do under the circumstances does not appear. He was wholly dependent on his father,... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Artists - 1886 - 416 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." Gibbon never married, but retained his life-long friendship and admiration for Madame Necker. It was... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 866 pages
...strange alliance,' and in the calm reflection of thirty years later he adds, ' After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habite of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 848 pages
...'strange alliance,' and in the calm reflection of thirty years later he adds, ' 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. 
