 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...on TIIK COMPLETION OK HIS HISTORY. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall nnvv commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of Jun^, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in... | |
 | 1860 - 600 pages
...have a companion to that passage in which Gibbon describes a yet happier moment of his life, when, " on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden." The "establishment of fame... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 pages
...discovered and enlivened his Swiss retreat. He wrote steadily and rapidly till he completed his work. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of 11 and 12, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer house in my garden. . . . The air... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1860 - 520 pages
...far from being tasteful. It was in this summer-house, as he informs us in his autobiography, that, on the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, he wrote the last lines of the last page of his great work. " After laying down my pen," he adds, "... | |
 | Henry Watkins Allen - 1861 - 270 pages
...immortal. After finishing his great work he wrote these lines : " 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 several turns... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 pages
...have a companion to that passage in which Gibbon describes a yet happier moment of his life, when, " on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summerbouse in my garden." The " establishment of fame,"... | |
 | William Smith (F.S.A.S.) - 1864 - 148 pages
..." in the garden behind the dining-room of the hotel. Gibbon says, "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 several turns... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1865 - 496 pages
...left us an equally minute and not less interesting record of his feelings at its conclusion : — " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a Bummer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took 'aiveral turns in a berceau or covered... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...1787. Perhaps the best passage in his Memoirs is the well-known one in which this is described : " It was on the day, or rather night of the 27th of...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 several turns... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1868 - 384 pages
...and Fall of the Roman Empire." "I have presumed," he says, "to mark the moment of conception : — I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven anu twelve, that I wrote the last * Life of Cotcper, vol. iii. London, 1835. lines of the last page,... | |
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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 walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. 
