 My temper is not very 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 forget nor express the strong emotions which agitated my mind as I first approached...  The Mid-eighteenth Century - Page 273by John Hepburn Millar - 1902 - 387 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 500 pages
...continued my journey through Sienna to Rome, where I arrived in the beginning of October. 2. My temper is not very 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 forget... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...continued my journey through Sienna to Rome, where I arrived in the beginning of October. 2. My temper is not very 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 forget... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...continued my journey through Sienna to Rome, where I arrived in the beginning of October. 2. My temper is not very 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 forget... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1839 - 496 pages
...continued my journey through Sienna to Rome, where I arrived in the beginning of October. 2. My temper is not very 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 forget... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 388 pages
...continued my journey through Sienna to Rome, where I arrived in the beginning of October. 2. My temper is not very 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 forget... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 394 pages
...continued my journey through Sienna to Rome, where I arrived in the beginning of October. 2. My temper is not very susceptible of enthusiasm, and the enthusiasm which I do not feel, 1 have ever scorned to affect. But at the distance of twenty-five years, I can neither forget... | |
 | Charles Rockwell - 1842 - 446 pages
...description which Gibbon gives of his own feelings on firs} arriving there. He says, — " My temper is not very 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 forget... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...continued my journey through Sienna to Rome, where I arrived in the beginning of October. 2. My temper is not very susceptible of enthusiasm ; and the enthusiasm which I do not fee], I have ever scorned to affect. But, at the distance of twenty-five years, I can neither forget... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...continued my journey through Sienna to Rome, where I arrived in the beginning of October. 2. My temper is not very 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 forget... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...continued my journey through Sienna to Rome, where I arrived in the beginning of October. 2. My temper is not very 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 forget nor... | |
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