 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1873 - 798 ページ
...subjoin to them such anecdotes as I have been able to collect relative to the same period. 1 [" It wai on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...that I wrote the last lines of the last page. In a lummer-houte In my garden. After laying down my pen, 1 took several turns In a bcrtxau, or covered... | |
 | 1873 - 842 ページ
...day,'" and so forth. — p. 224. I have presumed, [says Gibbon,] 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 2~th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Charles Bertram Black - 1873 - 226 ページ
...Place Riponne, below the cathedral. It was on the terrace of the Hotel Gibbon that the great historian, "on the day or rather night of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of 11 and 12, wrote the last lines of the last page " of the Deeline and Fall of the Roman Empire. John... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 ページ
...to the completion of his work. He thus describes the hour and the scene when the task was ended : " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 ページ
...revisal. [GIBBON COMPLETES THE DECLINE AND FALL.] 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, 5 that I wrote the last... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 ページ
...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, 5 that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 370 ページ
...revisal. [GIBBON COMPLETES THE DECLINE AND FALL.] I have presumed to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance.^ It was on the dayn or rather the night of the 2?th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, S^that I... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 ページ
...interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....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... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1902 - 506 ページ
...remaining volumes were the work of just under four years. ' 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 line of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns... | |
 | 1903
...private negotiation with the minister of Honorius. FROM GIBBON'S " LETTERS." On the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, I wrote the last lines of the last page [of 7 he Decline and Fall] in a summerhouse in my garden [at... | |
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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. 
