| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...enthusiasm which I do not feel, I have ever scorned to effect. But, at the distance of twenty-five yenrs, I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which agitated my mind as 1 first approached and entered the eternal city. Alter a sleepless night, I n oil, v. i-:li a lofty... | |
| Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...considerable pour "irchitecture: mais ce n'a pas ete sans un respect secret the distance of twenty-five years, I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which agitated my que j'ai considere les tombeaux de Galilee, et de Michel Ange, tlu restaurateur des arts, et de celui... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - Italy - 1831 - 386 pages
...enthusiastic feelings which animated him as he gazed upon the Forum. " At the distance of twenty-five years I can neither forget nor express the strong...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... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - Engraving - 1831 - 392 pages
...enthusiastic feelings which animated him as he gazed upon the Forum. " At the distance of twenty-five years I can neither forget nor express the strong...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... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - Engraving - 1831 - 404 pages
...enthusiastic feelings which animated him as he gazed upon the Fortan. " At the distance of twenty-five years I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which agitated niy mind as I first approached and entered the Eternal City. After a sleepless night, I trod, with... | |
| Biography - 1836 - 506 pages
...entered the Eternal City were, after an interval of twenty-five years, still fresh in his memory. " After a sleepless night I trod, with a lofty step,...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... | |
| Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...strong emotions which agitated my mind when I first approached and entered the immortal city;—after a sleepless night I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins...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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...enthusiasm which I do not feel, I have ever scorned to affect. But, at the distance of twenty-five years, I can neither forget nor express the strong...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... | |
| James Cleland - 1837 - 172 pages
...described with such noble enthusiasm by Gibbon. " At the distance of twenty-five years," said Gibbon, " I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions...agitated my mind, as 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... | |
| Biography - 1838 - 482 pages
...entered the Eternal City were, after an interval of twenty-five years, still fresh in his memory." After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step,...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... | |
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