 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 664 pages
...history. MY EARLY LOVE I hesitate, from the apprehension of ridicule, when I approach the delicate subject of my early love. By this word I do not mean the polite attention, the gallantry, without hope or design, which has originated in the spirit of chivalry, and is interwoven with the texture of French... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pages
...as follows : " I hesitate, from the apprehension of ridicule, when I approach " the delicate subject of my early love. By this word I do not " mean the polite attention, the gallantry, without hope or design, " which has originated in the spirit of chivalry, and is interwoven " with the texture of French... | |
 | 1917 - 438 pages
...succumbed. "I hesitate, from the apprehension of ridicule," he writes, "when I approach the delicate subject of my early love. By this word I do not mean the polite attention, the gallantry, without hope or design, which has originated in the spirit of chivalry, and is interwoven with the texture of French... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 612 pages
...tender paflions. 1 ' I hefitate, from the apprehenfion of ridicule, when I approach the delicate fubjeft of my early love. By this word I do not mean the polite...without hope or defign, which has originated in the fpiiit of chivalry, and is, interwoven with the texture of French manners. I underftand by this paffion... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 pages
...numerous assemblies. I hesitate, from the apprehension of ridicule, when I approach the delicate subject of my early love. By this word I do not mean the polite attention of the gallantry, without hope or design, which has originated from the spirit of chivalry, and is... | |
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I hesitate, from the apprehension of ridicule, when I approach the delicate subject of my early love. By this word I do not mean the polite attention, the gallantry, without hope or design, which has originated in the spirit of chivalry, and is interwoven... 
