| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 páginas
...summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk oí acacias, which commands a prospect of the country,...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. I... | |
| 1817 - 494 páginas
...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...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. I... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 páginas
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bcrceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...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. I... | |
| Henry Matthews - 1822 - 334 páginas
...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...and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waves, and all nature was silent." Gibbon's... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 páginas
...the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected upon the waters, and all nature was silent. I... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 páginas
...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...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. I... | |
| Richard Duppa - 1825 - 248 páginas
...his riches, since Gibbon's death, have been bestowed upon either. Nature has preserved the terrace, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains ; but the suinmer-house at the end of it, where he composed the last page of his history, is now a... | |
| 1830 - 336 páginas
...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...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. I... | |
| James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 páginas
...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...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. I... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 páginas
...the last • age, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, 1 took several turns it a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands...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. I... | |
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