 | 1849 - 812 Seiten
...Life, p. 198, 8vo edition.) Again, the well-known description of the conclusion of his labours :— " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception :...deliverance. 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 last page, in... | |
 | 1849 - 602 Seiten
...Lije, p. 198 8vo edition. Again, the well-known description of the conclusion of his labors : — " rian, sent up 'ad hoc' with this expedition — a...observations. It was discovered that he had kept a regu June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in... | |
 | 1849 - 844 Seiten
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. 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 linea of th« last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 Seiten
...Life, p. 198, 8vo edition. Again, the well-known description of the conclusion of his labours : — " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception :...deliverance. 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 last page, in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...situation. The history was completed at the time and in the circumstances which he has thus stated: — ' eir way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect,...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, I Bummer-house in my garden. After laying do1 my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covei Residence... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 218 Seiten
...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 - 1851 - 558 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1854 - 794 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 364 Seiten
...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,... | |
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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. 
