 It was on the day, or rather 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 30publié par - 1897Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1928 - 472 pages
...page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or a covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 pages
...reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy in the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. The age in which Gibbon was born largely contributed to give direction to his pursuits and lastingly... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pages
...passionless nature Mr. Gibbon may have had, but it must have been also a singularly amiable one. ' I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.' Throughout his life Gibbon thoroughly understood his own position. As a man of letters he had no vulgar... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - 1992 - 340 pages
...Edward Gibbon, for example, upon completion of his great history, noted: "I will not dissemble the firm emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame." As is now known, about Gibbons's fame there was no "perhaps" whatsoever. Gibbons's fame arrived on... | |
 | Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung - 1998 - 506 pages
...the early postwar years stand out as a time of lonely struggle in a land in which all was strange. 'I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, . . . But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pages
...reflected from the waters, and .ill nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions ofjoy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sobre melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 pages
...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...freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 pages
...eleven and twelve that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. ... I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on...freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancoly was spread over my mind by the idea that I had... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 pages
...last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a batrau, or covered walk of Acacias, which commands a prospect...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 2003 - 390 pages
...his final volume in 1788, Gibbon bade a fond farewell to his readers, and to his great project: 'l will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the...freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that l had... | |
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