 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. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the...  Odd Fellows' Literary Casket - Page 1441854Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk oí acacias, which commands a prospect of the country,...the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humhled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken ли everlasting... | |
 | England - 1849 - 802 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bereean, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bcrceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a soher melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old... | |
 | Henry Matthews - 1822 - 334 pages
...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...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." Gibbon's library still remains, but it is buried and lost to the... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected upon the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...To». VI. No. 32.— 18-2Я in mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orlr of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all...dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of nry freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bcrceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake. a7id UKToT.. VI. No. 32.— IPi-?. Hi mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...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, vOL. vIII. N'O. XXXII. I the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...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...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and... | |
 | Richard Duppa - Europe - 1825 - 248 pages
...his riches, since Gibbon's death, have been bestowed upon either. Nature has preserved the terrace, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains ; but the suinmer-house at the end of it, where he composed the last page of his history, is now a... | |
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