| Frank McAlpine - Authors, American - 1886 - 446 pages
...memorable spot where Eomulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cœsar 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. " Here at last his long yearning for some great theme worthy of his historic genius was gratified.... | |
| William John Loftie - Ocean travel - 1888 - 662 pages
...where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cassar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation." Thackeray, in The Newcomes, describes the rush of feelings which the first sight of Rome awakens :... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 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 - 1891 - 456 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... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 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...descend to a cool and minute investigation. . . . It was at Rome on the isth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...or Tully spoke, or Ctesar fell — was at once present to my eyes ; and several days of inUnicatiun were lost, or enjoyed, before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the lith October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1896 - 540 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 " James Byres, of Tonley, in forty years... | |
| Edward Gibbon - History - 1896 - 466 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 * Jamos Byres, of Tonley, in forty years... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1897 - 614 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tolly 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.' With so magnificent a trumpet-call does the historian awaken us to the greatness that he has been destined... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 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 cool 10 and minute investigation. My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience and taste; but... | |
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