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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 - 1858 - 608 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 Mount Vernon Papers

Edward Everett - 1860 - 520 pages
...last lines of the last page of his great work. " After laying down my pen," he adds, " 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 WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND POEMS

1860 - 784 pages
...last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen. I took several p ;Q! 2 a* 6 "Ż5- O T R? -! cb /A=X ` ) f p < Eɽ ' prospect of the coun:ry, the lake, and the mount lins. The air was temperate, the skv was serene, the...
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A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 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 history of English literature, in a series of biographical sketches

William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 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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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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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Swiss Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil

Samuel Manning - 1866 - 228 pages
...last lines of the last page in a summerhouse 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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Swiss Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil

Samuel Manning - 1866 - 228 pages
...last lines of the last page in a summerhouse 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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Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century ...

Albert Barnes - 1868 - 468 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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Miscellaneous Prose Works, Volumes 3-4

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1868 - 608 pages
...last line of the last page in a summerhouse 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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