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
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 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, the lake [Lausanne], and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon... | |
| J. T. Headley - Italy - 1848 - 410 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." This remarkable passage throws open the feelings of the inner man... | |
| Charles Maybury Archer - Anecdotes - 1848 - 292 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." At a little inn at Morges, about two miles distant from Lausanne,... | |
| England - 1849 - 812 pages
...turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene,...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... | |
| England - 1849 - 822 pages
...turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acaciae, which commands a proepect of the country, the lake, and mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene,...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... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. Afier laying down my pen, I took several turns in a Ixrccnu, 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... | |
| Scotland - 1849 - 844 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, the lake, and mountains. The air was temperate, the aky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from... | |
| James Roche - 1850 - 572 pages
...summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake,...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent." He then subjoins two facts, of rare occurrence truly in the composition of so elaborate an achievement.—1.... | |
| Electronic journals - 1892 - 688 pages
...appartient maintenant à mou mari." As I walked homeward that evening, I gazed, as Gibbon had done, upon the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate,...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent. So had it been on that summer night when Edward Gibbon laid down... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, tho lake, and mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was... | |
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