 It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of 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...  The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics - Side 5141796Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1849 - 822 sider
...•of the conclusion of his labours : — " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception: I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th Jane 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 sider
...of the conclusion of his labours : — " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I 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 lines of the last page, in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 sider
...and impressive character. " I have presumed," he says, " to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....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... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 sider
...of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. * * * * It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 sider
...there, in 1787, completed his task. Of this event he himself has left us the following account : ' It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 sider
...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... | |
 | David Bogue - 1852 - 416 sider
...that tender melancholy of a liberal mind, which he so affectingly confesses in his autobiography:— " It was on the day, or rather night of the 27th of...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,... | |
 | 1852 - 218 sider
...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 sider
...he should return to his native country. In four years he completed his task. " It was," he says, " on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 sider
...had been allowed for a serious révisai. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....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... | |
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