 | 1849 - 844 pages
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last linea of th« last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve,...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, tho lake, and mountains.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 pages
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve,...that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a snmmer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 pages
...impressively records—" It was on that day, or rather night, between the hours of eleven and twelve, I wrote the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...says, " to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceait, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...situation. The history was completed at the time and in the circumstances which he has thus stated: — ' It way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect,...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, I Bummer-house in my garden. After laying do1 my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covei Residence... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...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 June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelTc, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1851 - 1038 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bfreeau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountain«. The air was températe, the sky was serene, the bilver orb of the moon was reflected from... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1852 - 498 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 June,...covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of tbe country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb... | |
 | David Bogue - 1852 - 416 pages
...tender melancholy of a liberal mind, which he so affectingly confesses in his autobiography:— " It was on the day, or rather night of the 27th of June,...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
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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 berccau, or covered... 
