 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...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... | |
 | History - 1852 - 218 pages
...his vast 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... | |
 | John George Edgar - Biography - 1851 - 558 pages
...by perpetual quotation, can not properly be omitted. He says — "It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours...that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-houso in my garden. After laying down my pen, I tooli several turns in a berceau, or covered... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 794 pages
...in alluding to the completion of his great historical work, "or rather night, of the twenty-seventh 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... | |
 | Biography - 1855 - 364 pages
...his history is too remarkable to be omitted : — " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th June, 1787 between the hours of eleven and twelve that I wrote the last lines of the las page in a summer-house in my garden After Jaying down my pen, I took severa turns in a berceau,... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...moment of conception ; I shall now comaemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, jr rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of leven and twelve, that I wrote the last Une of the last page, in i summer-house in my garden. After... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...great labour of Gibbon's life — the ' History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire : ' — " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...the close of his literary labors with mingled feelings of regret and delight. 6 It was/ he says, ' on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page9 in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1856 - 470 pages
...to describe the conclusion of his arduous labours. " It was," he says, " on the day, or rather the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours...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 walks in a berceau, or covered walk... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Poetry, Modern - 1856 - 458 pages
...a very natural account of his feelings at the conclusion of his long labour there : " It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last Hues of the last page in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
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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 walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. 
