 | 1823 - Počet stránok 592
...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...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. a7id UKToT..... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - Počet stránok 486
...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... | |
 | 1830 - Počet stránok 336
...interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have presumed to mark the moment of concepception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....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... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1827 - Počet stránok 440
...vanity, and extreme selraised in the Christian's mind could be separated from the recollection of it. "It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last line of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | 1830 - Počet stránok 550
...and the event, for euch its completion deserves to be called, is thus noted in his Memoirs : — " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception ;...between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the lost lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - Počet stránok 844
...society which had gathered in that city and ;hbourhood. The completion of the history he thus describes: 'It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in ray garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acudas.... | |
 | 1834 - Počet stránok 602
...the close of hi« literary labours with mingled feeling! of regret and delight. " It was," he says, " on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the bt.-t lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, 1 took several... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - Počet stránok 354
...Roman Empire," with feelings of a mingled and impressive character. " I have presumed," he says, " to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I * See vol. ii. p. 177. took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Počet stránok 526
...Roman Empire," with feelings of a mingled and impressive character. " I have presumed," he says, " to mark the moment of conception: I shall now commemorate...summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I * See vol. ii. p. 177. took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Počet stránok 360
...Roman Empire," with feelings of a mingled and impressive character. " I have presumed," he says, " to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the lasUpage, in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I * See vol. ii. p. 177. took several... | |
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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. 
