 | 1849 - 802 Seiten
...edition.) Again, the wen-known description of the conclusion of his labours : — " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception: I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th Jnne 1787, between the hoars of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 Seiten
...stroke * Memoires Secretes de la Cour de Berlin. to his great undertaking. "I have presumed (he says) to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was oo the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, hetween the hours of eleven and twelve, that... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 Seiten
...ushered into the garden to behold what the maiden called " La Gibbon" — an old shattered tool-house. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787," says Gibbon, " between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page,... | |
 | 1823 - 592 Seiten
...ushered into the garden to behold what the maiden called " La Gibbon" — an old shattered tool-house. "It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 17S7," says Gibbon, " between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 Seiten
...yet we find he wrote the last words of his history between the hours of eleven and twelve at night. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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... | |
 | 1830 - 336 Seiten
...interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have presumed to mark the moment of concepception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1/87, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 Seiten
...serious •e^rieal. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the i our of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, l 7Ä7, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last • age, in... | |
 | 1829 - 496 Seiten
...meet thee, Joy's own Flower, again ! ©ititou in fIiii " It was on the day or rather night of the 27th June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the burl liaea of the last page, in a Summer.house In my garden. After laying down my pen, 1 took several... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1827 - 440 Seiten
...vanity, and extreme selraised in the Christian's mind could be separated from the recollection of it. "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... | |
 | 1830 - 550 Seiten
...for euch its completion deserves to be called, is thus noted in his Memoirs : — " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate...between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the lost lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several... | |
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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. 
