 | Europe - 1830 - 400 pages
...labours may still be seen. " It was on the day," says he, " or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1 787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-honse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bergeau, or covered... | |
 | American literature - 1833 - 666 pages
...great historian completed his lengthened labours may still be seen. " It was on the day," says he, " or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wroic the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...the close of hi« literary labours with mingled feeling! of regret and delight. " It was," he says, " on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the bt.-t lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, 1 took several... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1835 - 362 pages
...alter, when I compared my recollection with the page. " It was," said he, " 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. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 pages
...Roman Empire," with feelings of a mingled and impressive character. " I have presumed," he says, " to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the lasUpage, in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I * See vol. ii. p. 177. took several... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 444 pages
...could to separated from the recollection of it. ' It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th ot 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 look several turns... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 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...1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...it is personally characteristic, and of which no change could bean improvement. — "I have presumed to mark the moment of conception -. I shall now commemorate...was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1 787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 1058 pages
...recollection with the page. " It was," said he, " on the day or rather the night of the 27th of June, I787, between the 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... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Alps, French (France) - 1838 - 446 pages
...removed. He alludes to them in the following remarkable passage: — " It was on the day ot 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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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 of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. 
