 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...spot — where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell — was at once present to my eyes ; and several days of intoxication were lost, or enjoyed,...descend to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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...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 - 1846 - 458 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. My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience and taste; but, in the daily labour of eighteen... | |
 | Belgium - 1851 - 478 pages
...spot — where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cjesar 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." Sufficient memorabilia still hold their empire here, to render the Forum an object of the highest interest... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1849 - 614 pages
...spot — where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Ciesar 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." ; TIIERE is one thought inscribed on all Which bears the impress of the past ; It wears the same dark... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...о Tully spoke, or Ca-sar fell — was at once presen to my eyqs ; and several days of intoxicatioi that we ought to beg pardon of the ladies for echoing such a slur on the softer sex, ev at Rome on the 15th October, 1764, as I sat miihingamids the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...memorable spot—where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cscsar fell—was at once present to my eyes ; and several days of intoxication were lost, or enjoyed,...descend to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 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." Shortly after his arrival there, on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing on the ruins of the... | |
 | John Miley - Papal States - 1850 - 694 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." Elsewhere he * Mabillon's opinion of Rome : " Ejus magnitudinem et praestantiam tum ex ruinis ipsis,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 pages
...spot — where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cscsar fell — was at once present to my eyes ; and several days of intoxication were lost, or enjoyed, before I could descend to a cool aud minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins... | |
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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... 
