 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...  New Monthly Magazine - Page 113redigeeritud poolt - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840
...commemorate the hour of my Gnal 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...acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 357 lehte
...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...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840
...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...garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in an arbour or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains.... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 329 lehte
...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...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... | |
 | H M. Melford - 1841 - 448 lehte
...behold. (Bulwer's Pilgrims.) Thus was this place' . A happy rural scat of various views. • (Milton.) After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias , which conmaods л prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. (Gibbon.) Nothing can be pleasanter... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1842 - 320 lehte
...fcelings at the conclusion of his long labour there : " It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1 787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote...berceau or covered walk of acacias, which commands the lake and the mountains ; and I will not dissemble my joy. But, when I reflected that I had taken... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1842
...it was here, 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...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a brreeau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and tho mountains.... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1842
...here, on the day or rather night of the 27th of June, 17*7, between the hours of 11 And 12, 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 bfrctau, or covered, walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829
...GIBBON IN HIS GARDEN. " It was on the day or rather night of ihe 27th June, 1787, Ычи/ew- «'"^ nmirs of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a Summer-nwwse ;,, my gnrden. And laying down my pen, I look several turns 111 л bfrccati, or covered... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843
...that he terminated his labors: — " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote...acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon... | |
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