 | James William Massie - 1846 - 572 páginas
...After laying down my pen, 1 took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." The antique... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 páginas
...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains....I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1848 - 410 páginas
...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains....the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." This remarkable passage throws open the feelings of the inner man... | |
 | Charles Maybury Archer - 1848 - 292 páginas
...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains....the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." At a little inn at Morges, about two miles distant from Lausanne,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 páginas
...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains....I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 páginas
...turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, tho lake, and mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene,...emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps tho establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 páginas
...garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains....reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent." He then subjoins two facts, of rare occurrence truly in the composition of so elaborate an achievement.—1.... | |
 | 1892 - 688 páginas
...appartient maintenant à mou mari." As I walked homeward that evening, I gazed, as Gibbon had done, upon the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate,...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent. So had it been on that summer night when Edward Gibbon laid down... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains....I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy, on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains....I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
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After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the... 
