The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
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Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
Permalink to quote #16 It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of…
Permalink to quote #18 I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
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