 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
 | Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 468 sider
...a very natural account of his feelings at the conclusion of his long labor there : " It was on the 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,... | |
 | 1854 - 428 sider
...well-known passage of his autobiography, the author records its memorable conclusion: " It was on the 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... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 sider
...well-known passage of his autobiography, the author records its memorable conclusion: " It was on the 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... | |
 | 1855 - 424 sider
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 sider
...remarks on THE COMPLETION 0V HIS HISTORY. 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... | |
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 sider
...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, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page9 in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 sider
...familiar, are sufficiently beautiful to justify their re-transcription. " It was on the day," he writes, "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,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 sider
...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 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... | |
 | 1857 - 456 sider
...naturally delineated. '• I have presumed," says he, " 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 pen,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 sider
...remarks on THE COMPLETION OF HIS HISTORY. 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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