 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...  A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical: Of the Various ... - Page 140by John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...Jupiter, that the idea of writing the ' decline and fall' of the city first started to my mind. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven or twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house, in my garden. After... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 pages
...and enlivened his Swiss retreat. He wrote steadily and rapidly till he completed his work. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer house in my garden. . . . The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon... | |
 | Great Britain - 1854 - 562 pages
...and Fall of the Roman Empire ; " as he has himself informed us : " It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of 11 and 12, that I wrote the last line of the last page in a summer house in my garden." If natural beauty could inspire his pen, then... | |
 | 1860 - 600 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 summer-house in my garden." The "establishment... | |
 | 1860 - 784 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1861 - 614 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 summerbouse in my garden." The " establishment... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...described the completion of his great work at Lausanne, when he had passed his fiftieth year : — "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... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...described the completion of his great work at Lausanne, when he had passed his fiftieth year :— " 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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 826 pages
...he should return to his native country. In four years he completed his task. " It was," he says, " 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...years. ' It was," says he — and the passage can never be read without the deepest interest—' it was in his writings. ' From my infancy,' says he, — ' from the ago eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After... | |
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