 | John Blair Linn - Genius - 1802 - 196 pages
...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...intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins... | |
 | John Aikin - 1803 - 770 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; aod several .days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...could descend to a cool and minute investigation." It was, he informs us, on the i5th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the capital,... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1803 - 646 pages
...where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, vas at once present to my eye ; and several <hys of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation." It was, he informs us, on the Ijth of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the Tuins of the capitol,... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...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 lest or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation." On the 15th of October,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...step the b ruins of the forum ; 'each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tuliy spoke, or Csesar fell, was at once present to my eye, and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed ')efore I could descend to a cooland minute invesUgation." After spending six weeks at Naples, he then... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...to occupy every moment of an ordinary life. The answers of Magliabecchi are but few in number, and once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a it is easy to conceive his inability to take many copies ; but such a correspondence is not to be kept... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...step, the ruins of the Forum : each memorable spot where Romulu* i/flori, or Tuily spoke, or Cesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before 1 could descend to a cool and minute inrestigat'on. Mj guille was Mr. Bvers, a Scotch antiquary of... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...The answers of Magliabecchi are but few in number, and once present to ray eye ; and several (lays of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a it 19 easy to conceive bin inability to take many copies ; but such a correspondence is not to be kept... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - Engraving - 1831 - 394 pages
...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...could descend to a cool and minute investigation." Even the unimpassioned Middleton, when " rambling about in the very rostra of old Rome, and in that... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...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...I could descend to a cool and minute investigation of its beauties.'' I need not remind you of the many earnest and eloquent exhortations which you must... | |
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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... 
