 | Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 516 pages
...feelings at the conclusion of his long labour there: " Ifr was on the night of the 27th of June, 1797, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bereeau or covered walk of acacias, which commands the lake and the mountains ; and I will not dissemble... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 494 pages
...at the conclusion of his long lahor there : " It was on the night of the 27th of June, 17s7, hetween the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a herceau or covered walk of acacias, which commands the lake and the mountains. The sky was serene,... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1851 - 558 pages
...by perpetual quotation, can not properly be omitted. He says — "It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours...that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-houso in my garden. After laying down my pen, I tooli several turns in a berceau, or covered... | |
 | 1854 - 794 pages
...in alluding to the completion of his great historical work, "or rather night, of the twenty-seventh of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last line of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | J. R. MacCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1854 - 1048 pages
...27th of June, 17*7, between the hours of 11 and 12, that 1 wrote the last tines of the last ptige, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I touk several turns in a bcrceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country,... | |
 | 1855 - 364 pages
...his history is too remarkable to be omitted : — " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th June, 1787 between the hours of eleven and twelve that I wrote the last lines of the las page in a summer-house in my garden After Jaying down my pen, I took severa turns in a berceau,... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...moment of conception ; I shall now comaemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, jr rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of leven and twelve, that I wrote the last Une of the last page, in i summer-house in my garden. After... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...to mark the moment of conception: I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceait, or covered walk of acacias, 1 Gibbon's attack on Christianity in his otherwise great work... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...familiar, are sufficiently beautiful to justify their re-transcription. " It was on the day," he writes, "or rather night of the 27th of June 1787, between...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a ber$eau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 pages
...to have arrived at the close of his literary labors with mingled feelings of regret and delight. 6 It was/ he says, ' on the day, or rather night, of...and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page9 in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau,... | |
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It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered... 
