 | EDWIN WATTS CHUBB - 1910 - 426 pages
...susceptible of enthusiasm; and the enthusiasm which I do not feel, I have ever scorned to affect. But, at the distance of twenty-five years, I can neither...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... | |
 | James L. Gordon - 1911 - 406 pages
...susceptible of enthusiasm, and the enthusiasm which I do not feel I have ever scorned to affect. But at the distance of twenty-five years I can neither...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 and enjoyed... | |
 | James Logan Gordon - 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 - 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... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pages
...the enthusiasm I XL SKETCH 01' THE AUTHOR'S LIKE. " do not feel, I have ever scorned to affect. But, at the distance " of twenty-five years, I can neither...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 lost or " enjoyed... | |
 | 1919 - 654 pages
...with names and actions that can never perish. He then quoted Gibbon's words on first visiting Rome : At the distance of twenty-five years I can neither...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... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 pages
...susceptible of enthusiasm, and the enthusiasm which I do not feel I have ever scorned to affect. But, at the distance of twenty-five years, I can neither...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... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1995 - 596 pages
...susceptible of enthusiasm, and the enthusiasm which I do not feel I have ever scorned to affect. But at the distance of twentyfive years I can neither...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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...his first determining to write on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, when on a visit to Italy: After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step,...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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But at the distance of twenty-five years, I can neither forget nor express the strong emotions which 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... 
