 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...  The National magazine and general review - Page 409edited by Full view - About this book
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...of Jupiter, 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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...situation. The history was completed at the time and in the circumstances which he has thus stated: — ' eir way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect,...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, I Bummer-house in my garden. After laying do1 my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covei Residence... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...then subjoin to them such anecdotes as I have been able to collect relative to the same period. 1 [" It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelTc, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying... | |
 | David Bogue - Savoy (France and Italy) - 1852 - 416 pages
...that tender melancholy of a liberal mind, which he so affectingly confesses in his autobiography:— " It was on the day, or rather night of the 27th of...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 berccau, or covered... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 pages
...conception. I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours...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 walk... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - History - 1987 - 260 pages
...moon.28 The mood combines relief and a sense of loss: It was on the day or rather the night of the 2jth 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 walk... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...presumed 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...that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
..."I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day or rather the night of 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and...that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. ... I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 302 pages
...completion registers the same admixture in a yet more affecting manner: 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 page in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or... | |
 | H.v. Morton - Travel - 2009 - 256 pages
...Lausanne, and he described 'the final hour of my deliverance'. It was the day, or rather night, of June 27, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that...the last lines of the last page in a summer house of my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias,... | |
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