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" 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 - Page 49
by Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839
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Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...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...
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Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 pages
...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...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 8

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...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,...
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The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal, Volume 6

1823 - 592 pages
...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...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 14

1830 - 336 pages
...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...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...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...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 22

1838 - 596 pages
...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...
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Historical, Literary, and Artistical Travels in Italy, a Completer and ...

Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (known as) - 1839 - 438 pages
...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...
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A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the Various ...

John Ramsay McCulloch - 1842 - 968 pages
...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...
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The universal class-book: a ser. of reading lessons

Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...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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