 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 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...I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk oí acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate,... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...(says he) 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...took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of accacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the fake, and the mountain*. '22 GIBSON'S WORKS.... | |
 | England - 1849 - 802 pages
...my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th Jnne 1787, between the hoars of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bereean, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and mountains.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, hetween the hours of eleven and twelve, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bcrceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...of conception, (amid the ruins of Rome;) I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...shattered tool-house. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787," says Gibbon, " between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote...acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, VOL. V11I. NO. XXXII. I the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...was on the day, or rather night, of the 2~th of June. 1787," :.ws Gibbon, "between the hours of devra and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After 'aying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk *f acacias, which commands a... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...ushered into the garden to behold what the maiden called " La Gibbon" — an old shattered tool-house. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787," says Gibbon, " between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page,... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...ushered into the garden to behold what the maiden called " La Gibbon" — an old shattered tool-house. "It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 17S7," says Gibbon, " between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...yet we find he wrote the last words of his history between the hours of eleven and twelve at night. " 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... | |
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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 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... 
