 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...memorable spot where " Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar/i?//, was at once pres" ent to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or " enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investiga" tion. My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience " and taste ; but in the... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 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. 6 Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) was born in Putney, near London, of a well-to-do family. His youth was... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1995 - 596 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 and minute investigation."1 Gibbon's shock in 8 Autobiography, 98-100. 9 Ibid., 135. Gibbon's writings offer a... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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 barefooted... | |
 | François Furet - History - 1984 - 280 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 and minute investigation."5 This traveler's sentiment, which anticipates the emotional investment the romantic... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1988 - 260 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. 23 It is tempting to discount the passage; it is so familiar and its diction so elevated: Gibbon does... | |
 | Wilfred Cantwell Smith - Religion - 1994 - 400 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 and minute investigation"31. Also, relatively few today take the Classics as their primary guide in facing the... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - Authors, English - 1996 - 572 pages
...spot where Romulus stood, or Tully [Cicero] spoke, or Caeesar 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... | |
 | Bruce Redford - Travel - 1996 - 156 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 and minute investigation.18 Canto IV organizes its "strong emotions" along geographically coherent lines; moreover,... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - Political Science - 1999 - 372 pages
...unaware that Romulus might be a fiction 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 and minute investigation.18 " Journal C, pp. 159-61, 162 5; there is an English translation in MW, 1n, pp. 231... | |
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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... 
