 | Edward Gibbon - 1895 - 246 páginas
...one cannot read without a strong thrill of sympathy with its lofty emotion : — " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, bctween the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - 1895 - 390 páginas
...presumed to mark the moment of conception [viz. Gibbon's great work on the Decline and Fall of Rome] ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1 787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house... | |
 | 1895 - 914 páginas
...mind." More than twenty years afterward he thus describes and commemorates its completion : " On the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, I wrote the last lines of the laat page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen I... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 páginas
...interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception ; 1787. I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 páginas
...interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception ; 1787. I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. 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... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 páginas
...intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the execution of that laborious work. . . . I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the zyth of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 páginas
...interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. [GIBBON COMPLETES THE DECLINE AND FALL.] I have presumed to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate...my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, 5 that I wrote the last... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 370 páginas
...interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. [GIBBON COMPLETES THE DECLINE AND FALL.] I have presumed to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance.^ It was on the dayn or rather the night of the 2?th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, S^that I... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1902 - 506 páginas
...remaining volumes were the work of just under four years. ' 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 line of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns... | |
 | 1903
...private negotiation with the minister of Honorius. FROM GIBBON'S " LETTERS." On the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, I wrote the last lines of the last page [of 7 he Decline and Fall] in a summerhouse in my garden [at... | |
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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 Yast 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... 
