 | John Blair Linn - Genius - 1802 - 196 pages
...susceptible of enthusiasm ; and the enthusiasm which 1 do not feel, I have ever scorned to affect. But at the distance of twenty-five years, I can neither...intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins... | |
 | John Aikin - 1803 - 770 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; aod several .days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation." It was, he informs us, on the i5th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1803 - 646 pages
...where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, vas at once present to my eye ; and several <hys of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation." It was, he informs us, on the Ijth of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst... | |
 | John Blair Linn - American poetry - 1804 - 192 pages
...lofty step the ruins of the Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Csesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several...intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October,' 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...of the Forum: each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at cnce present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication...were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation. My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience and taste : but,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...lofty step, the ruins of the Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tally spoke, or Cssar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several...were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation. My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience and taste; but,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...lofty step, the ruins of the Forum : each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cœsar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several...were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation. My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience and taste: but,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...to occupy every moment of an ordinary life. The answers of Magliabecchi are but few in number, and once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a it is easy to conceive his inability to take many copies ; but such a correspondence is not to be kept... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...The answers of Magliabecchi are but few in number, and once present to ray eye ; and several (lays of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a it 19 easy to conceive bin inability to take many copies ; but such a correspondence is not to be kept... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - Italy - 1831 - 386 pages
...delineated, with equal fervour, the enthusiastic feelings which animated him as he gazed upon the Forum. " At the distance of twenty-five years I can neither...were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation." Even the unimpassioned Middleton, when " rambling about in the very rostra... | |
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My temper is not very susceptible of enthusiasm, and the enthusiasm which I do not feel, I have ever scorned to affect. But at the distance of twenty-five years, I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which agitated my mind as I first approached... 
