 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1846 - 318 pages
...last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several walks in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...waters, and all nature was silent." — "I will not," he adds, "dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of rny freedom, and perhaps the establishment... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several walks in a berceau, or covered walk of x acacias, which commands a prospect of the country,...waters, and all nature was silent." — " I will not," he adds, " dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment... | |
 | Mrs Robert Moore - 1846 - 336 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." It is to the successive conquests of Savoy and Berne that the paucity... | |
 | Alicia Moore, Wandering Artist - Middle Ages - 1846 - 680 pages
...garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias, vhich commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and...the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." VESTIGES OF PALACES. 293 It is to the successive conquests of Savoy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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...mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silyer orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble... | |
 | James William Massie - Belgium - 1846 - 572 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, 1 took several turns in a berceau, 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 waves, and all nature was silent." The antique... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - Switzerland - 1848 - 394 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 the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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... 
