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 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 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...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 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...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pages
...last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in an arbour or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1841 - 344 pages
...of the last page in a summerhouse 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... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1842 - 964 pages
...page, in a summer-house In my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bfrctau, 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,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Commercial geography - 1842 - 968 pages
...page. In a summer-house In my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a brreeau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and tho mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, | the silver orb of the moon was reflected... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 612 pages
...last page in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berce.au, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment ot my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...last page in a sumrnerhouse 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 sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflecte-f from the waters, and all nature was silent. I »vill not dissemble the first emotions of... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bergeau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the water, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1844 - 780 pages
...page, In a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns In a btrceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the sliver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and ail nature was silent. I will not dissemble... | |
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