 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 Seiten
...Lausanne. " I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed " for a serious revisal. " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception :...deliverance. It was on " the day, or rather night, of the zyth of June, 1787. between the " hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the "... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 Seiten
...unconscious of any alterations in the moral or physical government of the world. Ibid. THE DECLINE AND FALL 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... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 Seiten
...of noble and affecting simplicity, speaks of the conclusion of his life's great work at Lausanne : " 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... | |
 | Henry Robinson Shipherd - 1926 - 380 Seiten
...as to put things in their proper relations to one another. (Quoted by Bainton, 231.) EDWARD GIBBON I have presumed to mark the moment of conception :...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 2jth of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - 1928 - 492 Seiten
...until October, 1772, it was a long, long 'pull' that was over when he laid down his pen here on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, after having written ' the last lines of the last page in a summer house in my garden. After laying... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 Seiten
...Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started in my mind. . . . I have presumed to mark the moment of conception....my final deliverance. 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 lines... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 Seiten
...fulfillment in the almost equally familiar set piece that celebrates the completion of the Decline and Fall: "I have presumed to mark the moment of conception:...now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance" (M, 180). Conception had taken place at evening; delivery takes place just before midnight, and the... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 Seiten
...completion registers the same admixture in a yet more affecting manner: 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 page in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 Seiten
...the Slave Trade to America, 4 vols. (Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1931-35). 2. "I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day or rather the night of 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve that I wrote the last lines... | |
 | H.v. Morton - 2009 - 256 Seiten
...Lausanne, and he described 'the final hour of my deliverance'. It was the day, or rather night, of June 27, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 'I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer house of my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered... | |
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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. 
