 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 páginas
...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, I... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 páginas
...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 I... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...life, and complete his great work. The following are his remarks on THE COMPLETION OF HIS HISTORY. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception :...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 nen.... | |
 | 1857 - 480 páginas
...condition, so profoundly natural, which Gibbon has as naturally delineated. li I have presumed," says he, " to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate...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... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 páginas
...Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started in my mind. . . . I have presumed to mark the moment of conception....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... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 páginas
...fulfillment in the almost equally familiar set piece that celebrates the completion of the Decline and Fall: "I have presumed to mark the moment of conception:...now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance" (M, 180). Conception had taken place at evening; delivery takes place just before midnight, and the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 páginas
...another memorable passage in his Memoirs, he dramatically reinvokes the completion of his great work: I have presumed to mark the moment of conception:...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 I... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 páginas
...the Slave 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 páginas
...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 turns... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1879 - 451 páginas
...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...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,... | |
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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... 
