 After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the...  The Living Age - Pagina 151846Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 pagina’s
...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 walk of acacias, which commands...the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pagina’s
...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 walk of acacias, which commands...the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment... | |
 | Mrs Robert Moore - 1846 - 336 pagina’s
...line 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 walk of acacias, -which commands...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." It is to the successive conquests of Savoy and Berne that the paucity... | |
 | Alicia Moore, Wandering Artist - 1846 - 680 pagina’s
...garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias, vhich commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." VESTIGES OF PALACES. 293 It is to the successive conquests of Savoy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pagina’s
...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 walk of acacias, which commands...mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silyer orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - 572 pagina’s
...line of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, 1 took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands...and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." The antique... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pagina’s
...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 walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake [Lausanne], and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 pagina’s
...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 walk of acacias, which commands...the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1848 - 410 pagina’s
...line 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 walk of acacias, which commands...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." This remarkable passage throws open the feelings of the inner man... | |
 | Charles Maybury Archer - 1848 - 292 pagina’s
...line 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 walk of acacias, which commands...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." At a little inn at Morges, about two miles distant from Lausanne,... | |
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