 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...in some parallel passages attempted by Chateaubriand and Lamartine. "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 Cscsar fell—was at once present to my eyes ; and several... | |
 | John Miley - Papal States - 1850 - 694 pages
...very first night he entered the city. " After a sleepless night," he says, " I trod with lofty steps 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... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 pages
...peuple roi, et reine encor du monde." " After a sleepless night," he says, " I trod with lofty steps 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...the 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...Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cae?ar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...intoxicating draught that is described with such noble enthusiasm by Gibbon. " At the distance of twentyfive years, I can neither forget nor express the strong...the ruins of the Forum ; each memorable spot where Eomulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye, and several days of intoxication... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...enthusiasm, which I do not feel I ha,ve ever «corned to affect ; but at the distance of twentylive years I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which agitated my mind a» I approached and entered the eternal city, after a sleepless night, and trod with a lofty step... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1863 - 196 pages
...Cronica, L. viii. c. 36. Gibbon's striking language is well known : " 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 Csesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1869 - 462 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...Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cassar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 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...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 Allan Croal - Transportation - 1877 - 642 pages
...intoxicating draught which is described with such noble enthusiasm by Gibbon: 'At the distance of twenty-five years I can neither forget nor express the strong...entered the Eternal City. After a sleepless night, I strode with a lofty step the ruins of the Forum ; each memorable spot, where Romulus stood, or Tully... | |
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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... 
