 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, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the...  The Metropolitan - Page 1121838Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 pages
...summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I * See vol. ii. p. 177. took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...nature was silent. 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... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - 1836 - 374 pages
...summer house in his garden. " After laying down my pen," says he, " I took several turns in a berfeau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame ; but my... | |
 | 1836 - 444 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I look several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame." This last... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, whidh commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and...nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy, on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 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...nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy, on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 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 waters, and all nature was silent. I will not • See preface to the Life of Mahomet, p. 10, 11. I 1 have followed the judiciou- precept of the Abb£... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 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 waters, and all nature was silent. I will not • See preface to the Life of Mahomet, p. 10, 11. dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 pages
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, 1 took several turns in a ferffaii, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature wag silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 1058 pages
...last page in a summerhouse 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." What a picture I Who does not enter into what must have been the... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1838 - 446 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." " Much has been done of late y ears by the Canton of Vaud to improve... | |
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