 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 Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1835 - 362 pages
...last page in a summerhouse 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." What a picture ! Who does not enter into what must have been the... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Arboriculture - 1835 - 1326 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 summer-house at the end of it, where Gibbon composed the last page of his history, is now... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 444 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I look several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame." This last point was. in his view, the great object of life. Hope, beyond death, he had none. He reluctantly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 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 waters, and all nature was silent. I will not • See preface to the Life of Mahomet, p. 10, 11. I 1 have followed the judiciou- precept of the Abb£... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 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 waters, and all nature was silent. I will not • See preface to the Life of Mahomet, p. 10, 11. dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, 1 took several turns in a ferffaii, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature wag silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 1058 pages
...last page in a summerhouse 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." What a picture I Who does not enter into what must have been the... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected upon the waters, and all Nature was filent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my same. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea, that... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 596 pages
...summer-house in my garden [at Lausanne-] After laying down my pen I took several turns in a tierceaa, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotion of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Alps, French (France) - 1838 - 446 pages
...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...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." " Much has been done of late y ears by the Canton of Vaud to improve... | |
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