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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... "
The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 457
by Alexander Chalmers - 1814
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Enlightened England: An Anthology of Eighteenth Century Literature

Wylie Sypher - 1947 - 1294 pages
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Switzerland in English Prose and Poetry

Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn - 1947 - 318 pages
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Poetry & Prose: With Essays by Browning, Bagehot, Swinburne and ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1948 - 226 pages
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Half-hours with the Best Authors: With Short Biographical and ..., Volumes 3-4

Charles Knight - 187? - 824 pages
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Autobiography of Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon - 1950 - 392 pages
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The Speaking Oak: English Poetry and Prose: a Selection, with Commentary and ...

James Reeves - 1951 - 248 pages
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Two Cheers for Democracy, Volume 10

Edward Morgan Forster - 1951 - 396 pages
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Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, Volume 68

1910 - 1176 pages
...Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started in my mind. . . . I have presumed to mark the moment of conception....my final deliverance. 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...
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Great Books of the Western World, Volume 40

Robert Maynard Hutchins - 1952 - 948 pages
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Edward Gibbon

Michael Joyce - 1953 - 200 pages
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