 | John Murray - 1838 - 452 pages
...removed. He alludes to them in the following remarkable passage : — " It was on the day or rather the night of the 27th 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... | |
 | 1838 - 596 pages
...striking and picturesque sentence in which the histoVian records the completion of his great task. "It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 17S7, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...pleasures of Lausanne. I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception :...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pages
...pleasures of Lausanne. I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception :...June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, thatl wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 394 pages
...his arduous task ; a passage in which all must sympathize, and which brings the author before us. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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,... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 pages
...his arduous task ; a passage in which all must sympathize, and which brings the author before us. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 pages
...to present them with the extract in which he describes the termination of his labours : he says, ' I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th June, 787, between the hours of eleven... | |
 | 1839 - 764 pages
...readers, to present them with the extract in which he describes the termination of his labours: he says, ' I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th June, 787, between the hours of eleven... | |
 | Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (known as) - 1839 - 438 pages
...touching than helongs "to this historian, erudite, indeed, but diffuse, and without elevation or gravity : "It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, hetween the hours of eleven and twelve, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summerhouse... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 pages
...pleasures of Lausanne. I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception :...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... | |
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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 berceau, or covered... 
