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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...

The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and ... - Page 176
by Edward Gibbon - 1814
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Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766, Volume 2

James Boswell - Corsica - 1955 - 442 pages

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Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1955 - 410 pages

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High Moment: Stories of Supreme Crises in the Lives of Great Men

Wallace Brockway - Biography - 1955 - 296 pages

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The Republic of Letters: Essays on Various Writers

Louis Kronenberger - American literature - 1955 - 280 pages

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A Literary History of England

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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