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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... "
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent ... - Page 305
by John Aikin - 1803
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Our Album of Authors,: A Cyclopedia of Popular Literary People,

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....
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Orient Line Guide: Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land : Illustrated

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 :...
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Memoirs of Edward Gibbon Written by Himself and a Selection from His Letters ...

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...
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Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, Written by Himself, and a Selection from His Letters

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...
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Cathcart's Literary Reader: A Manual of English Literature : Being Typical ...

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...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopędia of Universal Authorship ...

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...
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The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon

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...
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The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 185

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...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon

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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