 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 pages
...then 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...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...situation. The history was completed at the time and in the circumstances which he has thus stated: — ' ver a jag, A river steep and wide. The loud wind never reached the ship, I wrote the last lines of the last page iii a summer-house iu my garden. After laying down my pen,... | |
 | 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 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,... | |
 | 1843 - 434 pages
...undertaking. His own words will doubtless recur to remembrance : " It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, . !i:. t I wrote the last line of the last page in a sumner-house in my garden. After laying down my... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 pages
...consider the barbarian conquerors as a more worthy subject of his narrative. " Fas est et abhoste doceri." I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....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,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...narrative. " Fas est et ebhoete doceri." I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. Jt 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,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...narrative. " Fas est et ab hosts doceri." I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. Jt 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,... | |
 | Alicia Moore, Wandering Artist - 1846 - 680 pages
...legacy of admiration, bequeathed to the scenes which inspired them. " 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... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...to describe the conclusion of his arduous labours. " It was," he says, " 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 lines of the last page in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen I... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - 572 pages
...of his great work. 1 quote his own words, describing the event. " 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, 1... | |
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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... 
