 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...  The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters - Page 2by William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Phillips Exeter Academy - 1887 - 246 pages
...first started in his mind. The other is the passage in which the great historian records how, on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, he wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house at Lausanne, and how then, laying down his... | |
 | Phillips Exeter Academy - Biography - 1887 - 242 pages
...first started in his mind. The other is the passage in which the great historian records how, on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, he wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house at Lausanne, and how then, laying down his... | |
 | 1888 - 762 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisa!. I have presumed 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... | |
 | Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 448 pages
...1787. Perhaps the best passage in his Memoirs is the well-known one in which this is described : ' It was on the day or rather night of the 27th of June...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 - 1892 - 572 pages
...engaged in the execution of that laborious work. . . . 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 line of the last page of the " Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire " in a summer-house in my garden.1... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1893 - 280 pages
...surrounding the beginning of his great work, indicates his passage to a new subject.] I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. [The commemoration then follows.] A Paragraph of Transition and Amplification. A second reason which... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...edition. Tor., vi. Again the well-known description of the conclusion of his labours: — "I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliver« anee. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th June, 1787, between the hours of eleven... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - Christianity - 1894 - 560 pages
...first started in his mind. The other is the passage in which the great historian records how, on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, he wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house at Lausanne, and how then, laying down his... | |
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