 | John Blair Linn - Genius - 1802 - 196 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of 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
...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...could descend to a cool and minute investigation. My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience and taste : but, in the daily labour of eighteen... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lest or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation." On the 15th of October, he informs us, the idea of writing the decline and fall of Rome, first came... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tally spoke, or Cssar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...could descend to a cool and minute investigation. My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience and taste; but, in the daily labour of eighteen... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...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 - Engraving - 1831 - 392 pages
...memorable spot—where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...could descend to a cool and minute investigation." Even the unimpassioned Middleton, when " rambling about in the very rostra of old Rome, and in that... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed,...I could descend to a cool and minute investigation of its beauties.'' I need not remind you of the many earnest and eloquent exhortations which you must... | |
 | Biography - 1836 - 506 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Csesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed, before I could descend to a cool or minute investigation." His enthusiasm gradually gave way to deep and philosophical reflection, not... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...memorable spot where Roinulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...could descend to a cool and minute investigation. My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience and taste ; but, in the daily labour of eighteen... | |
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After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend... 
