 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 Port Folio - Seite 1631813Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 Seiten
...presumed 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...1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 Seiten
...commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1 787, 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, 1 took several turns in a ferffaii, or covered... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 1058 Seiten
...recollection with the page. " It was," said he, " on the day or rather the night of the 27th of June, I787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last line of the last page in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | John Murray - 1838 - 452 Seiten
...removed. He alludes to them in the following remarkable passage : — " 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 Murray (Firm) - 1838 - 446 Seiten
...removed. He alludes to them in the following remarkable passage: — " It was on the day ot 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... | |
 | 1838 - 804 Seiten
...historian records the completion of his great task. " It was on the dny, or rnther night, of the 27lh of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the lust Hi ся of the lust page, in the summer-house in my garden [at Lausanne.] Afier laying down my... | |
 | 1838 - 596 Seiten
...striking and picturesque sentence in which the histoVian records the completion of his great task. "It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 17S7, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 Seiten
...presumed 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...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... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 394 Seiten
...his arduous task ; a passage in which all must sympathize, and which brings the author before us. " 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 berfeau, or covered... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 Seiten
...his arduous task ; a passage in which all must sympathize, and which brings the author before us. " 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 berqeau, or covered... | |
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