 | Appleton D. and co - 1870 - 788 pages
...historian experienced that tender melancholy which he so aff ectingly confesses in his autobiography : — "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. After laying... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - Europe - 1871 - 534 pages
...Lausanne, lived and wrote Gibbon. There, he has informed us, "in a summer-house in my garden," on "the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve ... I wrote the last line of the last page" of the " History of Rome, in her Decline and Fall." Yet... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...complete his great work. The following are his remark« on THE COMPLETION OP HIS HISTORY. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was jn the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 650 pages
...remaining volumes of his history, and he thus commemorates the conclusion of his labor» : "It was ou the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the honra of elovrn and twelve, that I wrote the last line« of the hut page iu а bummer-house in my garden.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 654 pages
...wrote the remaining volumes of his history, and he thus commemorates the conclusion of his labors: "It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of Jane, 1787, between the honre of eleven and twelve, that I wrote th« last linca of the ladt page in... | |
 | 1873 - 842 pages
...happiness of our living- to see this day,'" and so forth. — p. 224. I have presumed, [says Gibbon,] to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 2~th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Charles Bertram Black - Italy - 1873 - 226 pages
...Place Riponne, below the cathedral. It was on the terrace of the Hotel Gibbon that the great historian, "on the day or rather night of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of 11 and 12, wrote the last lines of the last page " of the Deeline and Fall of the Roman Empire. John... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...ВЫЧЕВ, VOL. II. Again the well-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 June, 1787. iKitween the houia of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last linea ot the last page,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 478 pages
...alter, when I compared my recollection with the page. " It was," said he, " 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 summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...indulged the spontaneous impulse of pity and benevolence. IT was on that day or rather night. of the 27th June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve. that I wrote the last line of the last pagf.. of the Risc and 1'nll nf tfn' Romcni Empire in a summerhouse in my gnrden.*... | |
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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 Yast 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... 
