 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...  A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen - Page 220by George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 344 pages
...conception (amid the ruins of Rome) ; 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 covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 358 pages
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 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1842 - 964 pages
...here, on the day or rather night of the 27th of June, 17*7, between the hours of 11 And 12, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bfrctau, or covered, walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 pages
...GIBBON IN HIS GARDEN. " It was on the day or rather night of ihe 27th June, 1787, Ычи/ew- «'"^ nmirs of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a Summer-nwwse ;,, my gnrden. And laying down my pen, I look several turns 111 л bfrccati, or covered... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1842 - 968 pages
...borrow the beautiful passage in which Gibbon has perpetuated the memory of the event, " it was here, on the day or rather night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of 11 and 12, that I wrote the last lines of the last page. In a summer-house In my garden. After laying... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...mind ;" it was in the garden at Lausanne just referred to, that he terminated his labors: — " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a sumrnerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 pages
...subjoin to them such anecdotes as I have been able to collect relative to the same period. 1 [" It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...After laying down my pen, I took several turns In a btrceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...subjoin to them such anecdotes as I have been able to collect relative to the 'same period. ' C" It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountaius.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...The history was completed at the time and in the circumstances which he has thus stated: — ' It was hores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the...their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, severa! turns in a berceau, or covered Residence of Gibbon at Lausanne. walk of acacias, which commands... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...which all must sympathize, and which brings the author before us. " It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bergeau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
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