 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...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 berceau,...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 382 pages
...last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pages
...last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in an arbour or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 344 pages
...of the last page in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected upon the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pages
...(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... | |
 | John Murray - 1842 - 482 pages
...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 in a berceau,...reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent. " — Gibbon's Life.. " Much has been done of late years by the canton of Vaud to improve the institutions... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1842 - 964 pages
...page, in a summer-house In my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bfrctau, or covered, walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1842 - 384 pages
...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 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 - 968 pages
...page. In a summer-house In my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a brreeau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and tho mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, | the silver orb of the moon was reflected... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 pages
...eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau,...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of... | |
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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 berceau, or covered... 
