Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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... "
The Eclectic Review - Page 135
edited by - 1839
Full view - About this book

The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts

John Blair Linn - Genius - 1802 - 196 pages
...agitated my mind as I first approached and entered the eternal city. 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...
Full view - About this book

General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most ..., Volume 4

John Aikin - 1803 - 770 pages
...in glowing language described his sensations on entering Rome : " 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 ; aod several .days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...
Full view - About this book

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...agitated my mind as I first approached and entered the eternal city. 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 cnce present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...
Full view - About this book

The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts

John Blair Linn - American poetry - 1804 - 192 pages
...agitated my mind as I first approached and entered the eternal city. 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 Csesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...
Full view - About this book

The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...accomplished in 1 765. He thus speaks on the occasion of his entering Rome: " 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 lest or enjoyed before...
Full view - About this book

The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...agitated my mind as I first approached and entered the eternal city. After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tally spoke, or Cssar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost...
Full view - About this book

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...mind as I first approached and entered the. eternal city. After a sleepless night, I trod, with ii lofty step, the ruins of the Forum : each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cœsar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...
Full view - About this book

Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 66

England - 1849 - 802 pages
...agitated my mind as I first approached and entered the Eternal City. After a sleepless night, I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the Forum. Each memorable spot — where Romulus stood, or Tally spoke, or C.-rsar fell — was at onca present to my eyes; and several days of intoxication were...
Full view - About this book

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...July cardinal Stuart passed through Florence in hi* way to Pisa. He lodged in the palace Corsini. We ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at saw him for a moment at the gallery, where he staid about half an hour. He is a...
Full view - About this book

Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 14

Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...July cardinal Sluart passed through Florence in his way to Pisa. He lodged in the palare Corsini. We ruins of the Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at saw him for a moment at the gallery, where he staid about balf an hour. He is a...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF