 It was 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 summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of...  The idler in Italy - Seite 65von Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 Seiten
...prefumed to matk the moment of concep. tion: I fhall now comme<rorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of tleven and twelve, that I wrote the laft lines of the laft page, in £ fummer-houfe in my garden. After... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 Seiten
...prefumed to mark the moment of conception : I {hall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 3787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the laft lines of the laft page, in a fummer-houfe... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 Seiten
...presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the i our of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, l 7Ä7, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last • age, in... | |
 | 1830 - 336 Seiten
...presumed to mark the moment of concepception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1/87, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house... | |
 | 1838 - 596 Seiten
...striking and picturesque sentence in which the histoVian records the completion of his great task. "It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 17S7, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house... | |
 | Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (known as) - 1839 - 438 Seiten
...touching than helongs "to this historian, erudite, indeed, but diffuse, and without elevation or gravity : "It was on 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 summerhouse... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1842 - 968 Seiten
...borrow the beautiful passage in which Gibbon has perpetuated the memory of the event, " 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 summer-house In my garden. After laying... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 Seiten
...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,"—a work that, for research and depth of thought, whatever maybe its blemishes, has rarely been equalled, and never...the author before us. " 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... | |
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