| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1835 - 362 páginas
...alter, when I compared my recollection with the page. " It was," said he, " 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 line of the last page in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
| 1836 - 444 páginas
...could to separated from the recollection of it. ' It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th ot 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 look several turns... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 páginas
...it is personally characteristic, and of which no change could bean improvement. — "I have presumed to mark the moment of conception -. I shall now commemorate...was 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... | |
| John Murray - 1838 - 452 páginas
...removed. He alludes to them in the following remarkable passage : — " 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 line of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1838 - 446 páginas
...removed. He alludes to them in the following remarkable passage: — " It was on the day ot rather the night of the 27th of 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... | |
| 1838 - 804 páginas
...historian records the completion of his great task. " It was on the dny, or rnther night, of the 27lh of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the lust Hi ся of the lust page, in the summer-house in my garden [at Lausanne.] Afier laying down my... | |
| 1838 - 596 páginas
...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... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 páginas
...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...June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, thatl wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 páginas
...then subjoin to them such anecdotes as I have been able to collect relative to the same period. 1 [" It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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 ray pen,... | |
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