 | Edward Everett - 1860 - 520 páginas
...far from being tasteful. It was in this summer-house, as he informs us in his autobiography, that, on the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, he wrote the last lines of the last page of his great work. " After laying down my pen," he adds, "... | |
 | Henry Watkins Allen - 1861 - 270 páginas
...immortal. After finishing his great work he wrote these lines : " 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 Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 páginas
...have a companion to that passage in which Gibbon describes a yet happier moment of his life, when, " on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summerbouse in my garden." The " establishment of fame,"... | |
 | William Smith (F.S.A.S.) - 1864 - 148 páginas
..." in the garden behind the dining-room of the hotel. Gibbon says, "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 Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 páginas
...1787. Perhaps the best passage in his Memoirs is the well-known one in which this is described : " It was on the day, or rather night of the 27th of...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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1868 - 384 páginas
...to record the precise day and hour in which he concluded his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." "I have presumed," he says, "to mark the moment of...the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven anu twelve, that I wrote the last * Life of Cotcper, vol. iii. London, 1835. lines of the last page,... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1868 - 432 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... | |
 | Books - 1868 - 220 páginas
...record of the completion of his great labour is very impressive. " 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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1868 - 468 páginas
...downfall of the empire to permit him to pass it by ; and though the same facts might have been recorded * "It was on the day, or rather night of the 27th of Jnne, 1787, between the hoars of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in... | |
 | Fergus Ferguson - 1869 - 240 páginas
...Gibbon made in his diary there, on concluding his magnum opus. " 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... | |
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