 | James Ford Rhodes - Great Britain - 1909 - 388 pages
...of an unemotional man. "At the distance of twenty-five years," 1 Autobiography, 270. 107 he wrote, "I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions...Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood or Cicero spoke or Caesar fell was at once present to my eye." The admirer of Gibbon as he travels northward... | |
 | EDWIN WATTS CHUBB - 1910 - 426 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 Eomulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - Authors, American - 1910 - 442 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 Eomulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of... | |
 | James L. Gordon - Conduct of life - 1911 - 406 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 Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye, and several days of intoxication were lost... | |
 | James Logan Gordon - Christian life - 1914 - 266 pages
...Gibbon thus describes the hour of his greatest inspiration : " After a sleepless night I trod, with lofty step, the ruins of the forum. Each memorable spot — where Romulus stood — where Tulley spoke — where Caesar fell — I viewed with intoxication. As I sat musing among... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - American essays - 1916 - 482 pages
...as it does, the enthusiasm of an unemotional man. "At the distance of twenty-five years," he wrote, "I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions...Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood or Cicero spoke or Caesar fell was at once present to my eye." The admirer of Gibbon as he travels northward... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - American essays - 1915 - 472 pages
...as it does, the enthusiasm of an unemotional man. "At the distance of twenty-five years," he wrote, "I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions...Forum ; each memorable spot where Romulus stood or Cicero spoke or Caesar fell was at once present to my eye." The admirer of Gibbon as he travels northward... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...AUTHOR'S LIKE. " 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/i?//, was at once pres" ent to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1919 - 654 pages
...never perish. He then quoted Gibbon's words on first visiting Rome : 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 lost... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 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 Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost... | |
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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... 
