 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...then subjoin to them such anecdotes as I have been able to collect relative to the 'same period. ' C" It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountaius.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1844 - 780 pages
...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...After laying down my pen, I took several turns In a btrceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...situation. The history was completed at the time and in the circumstances which he has thus stated: — ' as a severa! turns in a berceau, or covered Residence of Gibbon at Lausanne. walk of acacias, which commands... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...which all must sympathize, and which brings the author before us. " It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bergeau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...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,...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a beneau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and mountains.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...situation. The history was completed at the time and in the circumstances which he has thus stated: — ' ver a jag, A river steep and wide. The loud wind never reached the ship, iii a summer-house iu my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Italy - 1844 - 364 pages
...a very natural account of his feelings at the conclusion of his long labour there : " It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours...the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in ray garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias,... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...undertaking. His own words will doubtless recur to remembrance : " It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, . !i:. t I wrote the last line of the last page in a sumner-house in my garden. After laying down my... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 366 pages
...a very natural account of his feelings at the conclusion of his long labour there : " It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 1 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 - English literature - 1846 - 318 pages
...allowed 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...my garden. After laying down my pen I took several walks in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake,... | |
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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 berccau, or covered... 
