 | Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (known as) - 1839 - 874 halaman
...indeed, but diffuse, and without elevation or gravity : "It was on the day. or rather night. oftbeiTlh of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I w rote the last lines of the last page, in • summerbouse in my garden. Alter laying down my pen I... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 382 halaman
...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 berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 halaman
...memoirs, " 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,...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 - 344 halaman
...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... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 halaman
...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 - 384 halaman
...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 - 964 halaman
...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.... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1842 - 968 halaman
...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 halaman
...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... | |
 | 1843 - 602 halaman
...his mind ;" it was in the garden at Lausanne just referred to, that he terminated his labors: — " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a sumrnerhouse 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... 
