 | Peter Gay - 1995 - 596 Seiten
...the enthusiasm which I do not feel I have ever scorned to affect. But at the distance of twentyfive 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | Wilfred Cantwell Smith - 1994 - 400 Seiten
...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 forget nor express the strong...sleepless night I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the 184 Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell was at once present... | |
 | John Varriano - 1995 - 304 Seiten
...the 'several days of intoxification' he enjoyed when, in 1764 he first 'trod with a lofty step [into] the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye'.3 Inspired by what he beheld, later in... | |
 | Bruce Redford - 1996 - 156 Seiten
...whole, commits itself to Gibbon's own combination of passion and detachment: 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... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 578 Seiten
...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...first approached and entered the eternal city. After a sleepness night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus... | |
 | Catharine Edwards - 1996 - 168 Seiten
...Rome: 'At the distance of twenty-five years I can neither forget nor " Cf. Spring (1972), 392. 403. express the strong emotions which agitated my mind...eternal city. After a sleepless night I trod with lofty step the ruins of the forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke or Caesar... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 1999 - 372 Seiten
...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 forget nor express the strong...emotions which agitated my mind as I first approached and then entered the eternal City. After a sleepless night did Guise go to pick up the chaise? I trod with... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 2001 - 364 Seiten
...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...emotions which agitated my mind as I first approached and then entered the eternal City. After a sleepless night did Guise go to pick up the chaise? I trod with... | |
 | H.v. Morton - 2009 - 434 Seiten
...the idea of writing The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 'After a sleepless night,' he wrote, 'I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot, where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell (how strange that Gibbon of all men should have made this error!), was... | |
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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... 
