 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1991 - 420 Seiten
...multivolume work of history, the bittersweet feeling that comes with the completion of the final volume: "I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom," Gibbon acknowledged; "but my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind,... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 Seiten
...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...and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky 19 was serene; the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 Seiten
...last page, in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and .ill nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions ofjoy on the recovery of my freedom,... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 Seiten
...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...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 Seiten
...last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a batrau, or covered walk of Acacias, which commands a prospect...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | H.v. Morton - 2009 - 434 Seiten
...last page in a summer house of my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. 1 will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1879 - 451 Seiten
...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...the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not describe the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 2007 - 532 Seiten
...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. It is uncertain whether Hardy chose that particular evening for sitting out in the garden because he... | |
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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 walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the... 
