 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cae?ar 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... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...memorable spot where Eomulus 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 cool or minute investigation." I need not recall to your recollection the earnest and eloquent exhortations... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood or Tully spoke or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye j and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...descend to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1761, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, vrhile the... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1863 - 196 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." — Memoirs of his life and writings. Miscellaneous Works, p. 81. ed. 1837. PAGE 108. " Behold, the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1869 - 462 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cassar 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... | |
 | Augustus John C. Hare - Rome (Italy) - 1871 - 486 pages
...of the church is vast, solemn, and highly picturesque. It was here, as Gibbon himself tells us, that on the i5th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers, the idea of writing the " Decline and Fall... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 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...descend to a cool and minute investigation. . . . It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tally 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 labor of eighteen... | |
 | Peter Anton - Agriculture - 1880 - 268 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... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 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. Gibbon, Memoirs. ROME. WHAT is it that constitutes that emotion of sublime delight, which every man... | |
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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... 
