 | Walter Harriman - Middle East - 1883 - 374 pages
...great historian. Speaking of the " History of Rome," Gibbon 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. summerhouse in my garden." Geneva, on which Lausanne is situated, is the... | |
 | Frédéric Hunt - 1883 - 194 pages
...une influence III. — A traduire en français : — 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 Unes of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down niy pen, I took several turns... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...indeed, as he said, now straining for the goal which was at last reached "on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June, 1787. Between the hours of eleven and twelve I wrote the last lines of 6 the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen,... | |
 | Burlington B. Wale - Nature - 1883 - 234 pages
...presumed to mark," says he, "the moment of conception (amid the ruins of Rome), and shall now commemoiate the hour of my final deliverance. 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... | |
 | 1885 - 286 pages
...Gibbon's record of the completion of this great work he wrote : " 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... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...published, and in 1787 the work was completed. " I have presumed," he writes in his "Autobiography," "to mark the moment of conception: I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night of the 271)1 of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 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 271l1 of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | William Paterson - Switzerland - 1886 - 212 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 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... | |
 | Europe - 1886 - 814 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 1787, tetween the hours of 11 and 12, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my... | |
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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... 
