 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...yet we find he wrote the last words of his history between the hours of eleven and twelve at night. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...of Laua.nne. I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious •e^rieal. I have 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... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1827 - 440 pages
...vanity, and extreme selraised in the Christian's mind could be separated from the recollection of it. "It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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... | |
 | Richard Duppa - 1829 - 558 pages
...flowerpots and rubbish. Here he finished his history, and in his Memoirs has thus commemorated the event. " 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,... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...and the event, for euch its completion deserves to be called, is thus noted in his Memoirs : — " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception ;...1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the lost lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...society which had gathered in that city and ;hbourhood. The completion of the history he thus describes: ple of the sky, In adoration join ; and ardent raise One general song ! To Him, ye vocal gales, I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in ray garden. After laying down my pen,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...Gibhon concludes his great work at Lausanne ; the sixth volume, which he began the 18th of May, 1786. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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,... | |
 | 1833 - 666 pages
...great historian completed his lengthened labours may still be seen. " It was on the day," says he, " or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wroic the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 354 pages
...Roman Empire," with feelings of a mingled and impressive character. " I have presumed," he says, " to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...1787, between the hours of 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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1835 - 362 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
