 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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pàgines
...known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1704, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,7 that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1854 - 360 pàgines
...developes genius; but accident has much to do in directing it to suitable employments. Had not Gibbon sat " musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of the "decline and fall of the city" might not have " started in his mind." Many an author... | |
 | William Spalding - 1854 - 446 pàgines
...those quarters where he was inclined to lead us astray. His work was first conceived in Rome, " as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter : " and its prevalent tone might, with no very wide stretch of fancy, be supposed to retain symptoms... | |
 | Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1854 - 540 pàgines
...among those of Rome, pondering upon the great work upon which his future fame was to rest. It was amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the historian mused over the plan of his " Decline and Fall ; " and it was amid the destruction... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1854 - 610 pàgines
...much to do in directing it to suitable employments. Had not Gibbon sat " musing amidst the •uins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of the "decline and fall of the eity" might not have " started in his mind." Many an author... | |
 | Peter Brown - 1989 - 364 pàgines
...Edward Gibbon published the f1rst volume of his Decline and Fall. It was twelve years before that, in 1764, 'as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol,...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." In January 1976,... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 pàgines
...taste for ruins and 'pleasing decay'. Gibbon claimed to have conceived the idea of his history as he sat 'musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while...friars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter', and his last chapter, which begins by quoting Poggio, is a meditation upon Rome's remains. More than... | |
 | Gerrit Walther - 1993 - 650 pàgines
...reichen Stoff geben werden" (AF 11,152). 16 Die berühmte Stelle aus seiner Autobiographie lautet: „It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as...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" (S. 127). 17 Letters... | |
 | John Varriano - 1995 - 304 pàgines
...Autobiography (1796), the great historian matter-offactly relates that 'it was at Rome, on the 1jth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started in my mind'/' Many are those... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 572 pàgines
...better of everything else among them. 5.3.4 Edward Gibbon THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 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... | |
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