 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pagina’s
...of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. * * * * It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pagina’s
...there, in 1787, completed his task. Of this event he himself has left us the following account : ' It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pagina’s
...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 June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelTc, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying... | |
 | David Bogue - 1852 - 416 pagina’s
...that tender melancholy of a liberal mind, which he so affectingly confesses in his autobiography:— " It was on the day, or rather night of the 27th of...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... | |
 | 1852 - 218 pagina’s
...undertaking: " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception, (amid the ruins of Eome) ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th June, 178Y, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 pagina’s
...he should return to his native country. In four years he completed his task. " It was," he says, " on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pagina’s
...had been allowed for a serious révisai. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 468 pagina’s
...a very natural account of his feelings at the conclusion of his long labor there : " It was on the 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... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pagina’s
...well-known passage of his autobiography, the author records its memorable conclusion: " It was on the 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... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pagina’s
...well-known passage of his autobiography, the author records its memorable conclusion: " It was on the 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... | |
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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... 
