| William Cowper - 1851 - 790 páginas
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceait, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 páginas
...in the circumstances which he has thus stated: — ' It was on the day or rather night of the 27th rotect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, I Bummer-house in my garden. After laying do1 my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covei Residence... | |
| W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 páginas
...moon.28 The mood combines relief and a sense of loss: It was on the day or rather the night of the 2jth of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve...lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky 19 was serene; the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 páginas
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve,...lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and .ill nature was silent.... | |
| Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 páginas
...27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve that I wrote the last page in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several...lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene; the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent.... | |
| John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 páginas
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day or rather the night of 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve...lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. ... I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment... | |
| David Womersley - 2002 - 472 páginas
...passage of draft 8E' of the 'Memoirs': It was on the day, or rather the night, of the ayth ofJune, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that...After laying down my pen I took several turns in a batrau, or covered walk of Acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
| H.v. Morton - 2009 - 434 páginas
...Lausanne, and he described 'the final hour of my deliverance'. It was the day, or rather night, of June 27, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 'I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer house of my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1879 - 451 páginas
...and though the same facts might have been recorded * "It was on the day, or rather night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve,...lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.... | |
| Thomas Hardy - 2007 - 532 páginas
...on the spot, as described in his Autobiography: It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of 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... | |
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