 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
 | 1858 - 600 sider
...singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter. " 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 sider
...there, in 1787, completed his task. Of this event he himself h.ts 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,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 sider
...of Jupiter, that 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 or twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house, in my garden. After laying... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 sider
...discovered and enlivened his Swiss retreat. He wrote steadily and rapidly till he completed his work. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of 11 and 12, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer house in my garden. . . . The air... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 sider
...the city first started in my mind. . . . 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 the night of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 sider
...reinvokes the completion of his great work: 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 summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 sider
...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... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 sider
...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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1879 - 451 sider
...downfall of the empire to permit him to pass it by; and though the same facts might have been recorded * "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... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 2007 - 532 sider
...closing his last page on the spot, as described in his Autobiography: 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 of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my... | |
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