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" 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 berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the... "
The Life of Edward Gibbon: With Selections from His Correspondence and ... - Page 190
by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 357 pages
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 6; Volume 70

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 pages
...last page in " 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 the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon hum. bled,...
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The idler in Italy, Volume 1

Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berqeau, 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...
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The Idler in Italy, Volume 1

Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1839 - 394 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berfeau, 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...
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Historical, Literary, and Artistic Travels in Italy: A Complete and ...

Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (known as) - Italy - 1839 - 874 pages
...last page, in • summerbouse in my garden. Alter laying down my pen I look several lurnsinaforceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate and the sky serene; the silvery orb of the moon was reOecled from the waters, and all nature was silent....
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Historical, Literary, and Artistical Travels in Italy, a Completer and ...

Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (known as) - Italy - 1839 - 438 pages
...last page, in a summerhouse in my garden. After lay ing down my pen I took several turns in a oerceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate and the sky serene; the silvery orb of the moon was rellected from the waters, and all nature was silent....
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Life, Letters, and Journals of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...page, In a summer-house In my garden. After laying down ray pen, I took several turns in a bcrtxau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, tho sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, attd all nature was silent....
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

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...
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes ...

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...
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A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the Various ...

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...
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Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 2

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...I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment ot my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,...
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