 It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Pàgina 1501839Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1844 - 636 pàgines
...forms us, on the 15th of October, in that year, as he sat musing among the ruins of the capital, " while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter," that his idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire entered his mind. He had previously... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pàgines
...or enjoyed, before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of...friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing this Decline and Fall ol the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...choice was determined by an incident of a striking and romantic nature. 'As I sat musing,' he says, ' With screaming Horror's funeral cry, De=pa!r, and fell Disease, and ghastly the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.' Many years, however,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1844 - 830 pàgines
...in the mind of Gibbon, and induced him to write " The Decline and Fall of Rome :" for he writes — "It was at Rome on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pàgines
...qualifications : but, in this sketch, those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pàgines
...qualifications : but, in this sketch, those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 pàgines
...Eternal City." It was in this Church — as he himself tells us — " on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind." To the Romanist,... | |
 | JAMES WHITESIDE - 1848 - 412 pàgines
...Bambino after such an avowal ? Gibbon informs us that it was here, on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers, that the idea of writing the " Decline and Fall" first entered his mind. Supposing the historian to... | |
 | 1848 - 580 pàgines
...the Capitoline Hill at Rome, as Gibbon himself tells us : ' On the fifteenth of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind.' "Why is Pompeii... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 492 pàgines
...Hill at Rome, as Gibbon himself tells us: " On the fifteenth of October, 1764, as he sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind." Why is Pompeii... | |
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