 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 135edited by - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...mind as 1 first approached and entered the eternal city. Alter a sleepless night, I n oil, v. i-:li a lofty 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... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - Engraving - 1831 - 404 pages
...agitated niy 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...where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cassar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - Italy - 1831 - 386 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... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...agitated my mind when I first approached and entered the immortal 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,... | |
 | Biography - 1836 - 506 pages
...after an interval of twenty-five years, still fresh in his memory. " 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,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 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 Roinulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 482 pages
...after an interval of twenty-five years, still fresh in his memory." 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,... | |
 | 1839 - 764 pages
...to be thought over, commenced, and finally thrown aside. On being released from military service, he set out on his travels into Italy, visited Lausanne...sleepless night, with a lofty step, ' the ruins of the Forum,—each memorable spot, where Romulus 'stood, or Tnlly spoke, or Csssar fell.' Several days of... | |
 | University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 332 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... | |
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