| Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (known as) - 1839 - Страниц: 874
...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 - Страниц: 390
...I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have 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 June 1787, between the hours of... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1841 - Страниц: 358
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| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1842 - Страниц: 968
...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 - Страниц: 618
...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 - Страниц: 602
...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - Страниц: 746
...situation. The history was completed at the time and in the circumstances which he has thus stated: — ' ver a jag, A river steep and wide. The loud wind never reached the ship, iii a summer-house iu my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered... | |
| 1849 - Страниц: 600
...edition. Again, the well-known description of the conclusion of his labors : — " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in... | |
| 1843 - Страниц: 434
...undertaking. His own words will doubtless recur to remembrance : " It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, . !i:. t I wrote the last line of the last page in a sumner-house in my garden. After laying down my... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1845 - Страниц: 366
...a very natural account of his feelings at the conclusion of his long labour there : " It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I... | |
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