 | Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 512 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 summerhouse in my garden." The " establishment of fame"... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 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 page of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire in a summerhouse in my garden.* After... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 pages
...I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. 1 have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of rny final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th * I have followed the iudieious... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English literature - 1877 - 564 pages
...last lines of the last page " of his great " History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," " on the day, or rather night of the 27th of June, 1787." The nineteenth century has been prolific in proper historical discourse of the highest rank and merit.... | |
 | John Diprose - 1878 - 336 pages
...of the completion of his great labour is very impressive. " It was on the day, or rather the nigkt, 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... | |
 | Europe - 1878 - 722 pages
...historian experienced that tender melancholy which he so affectingly confesses in his autobiography :— " It was on the day, or rather night of the 27th of June, 1737, between the hours of 11 and 12, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...seriously engaged in the execution of that laborious work. . . . 1794-l GIBBON. 485 I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the a?th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. 5. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 2yth of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Europe - 1881 - 364 pages
...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," and where he recorded that " 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... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1881 - 658 pages
...work, " The Decline and Fall of the lloman Empire." He 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... | |
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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... 
