| 1838 - 596 pagine
...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... | |
| Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 pagine
...his arduous task ; a passage in which all must sympathize, and which brings the author before us. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berqeau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pagine
...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...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.... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 394 pagine
...his arduous task ; a passage in which all must sympathize, and which brings the author before us. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berfeau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
| 1839 - 764 pagine
...commemorate the hour of my deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th June, 787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote...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.... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pagine
...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...June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, thatl wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen,... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 pagine
...commemorate the hour of my deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th June, 787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in " summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered... | |
| Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (known as) - 1839 - 438 pagine
...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... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pagine
...presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my Gnal deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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.... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pagine
...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...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.... | |
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