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Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of His Life and ... - Page 167
by Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 726 pages
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. 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...
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The Life of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. 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...
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The Literary Reader: For Academies and High Schools: Consisting of ...

Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...last lines of the last page, in a summer-house, in my garden. 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...
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A Hand-book for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont

John Murray (Firm) - 1852 - 512 pages
...last line of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. 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...
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A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 6

George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 pages
...last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. 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...
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Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, Volume 45

1854 - 616 pages
...failure. As I lay there, the words of Gibbon rose to my mind : " 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 eky was serene, the...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. 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...
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The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel, Comprising ...

W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 pages
...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, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was ternperate, the sky was serene, the...
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New Biographies of Illustrious Men

1857 - 476 pages
...last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. 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...
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Quarterly Journal of the American Unitarian Association, Volume 5

1858 - 588 pages
...last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. 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...
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