 | 1829 - 598 pages
...travels. ' It was at Home,' he tells us, 'on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat •musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed ' friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, (now the ' church of the Franciscan friars.) that the idea of writing the ' Decline and Fall of the... | |
 | Religion - 1830 - 580 pages
...travels. " It was at Rome," he tells us, " on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, (now the church of the Franciscan friars,) that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the City... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...on the 15th of October (in the year following), as he sat musing among the ruins of the capítol, " 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. Gibbon returned... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Italy - 1831 - 532 pages
...antique stones, and exceedingly uneven from age. It was in this church, ' as he sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,' that Gibbon first conceived, as he tells us, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the City.... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - 820 pages
...himself informs us, on the lath October in that year, as he sat musing among the ruins of the capítol, " while the bare-footed 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... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...months at Lausanne, he proceeded to Rome, where u " he sat musing amongst the ruins of the capítol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers...Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and Tall of the city first started to his mind." He returned from Italy in 1765, and again entered the... | |
 | 576 pages
...sublime conception first entered the author's mind, he was sitting musing among the ruins of the capital, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter. But it was through a dark and dreary chaos that he had to work his way. No English work existed which... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 630 pages
...Rome, as he himself informs us, on the 15th of October, in that year, as he sat musing among the ruins of the capitol, " 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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...amongst his old friends, he proceeded to Italy. It was at Rome, as " he sat musing amongst the ruins of the capitol, while the bare-footed friars were...the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." He returned from Italy in 1765, and again entered the militia — to please... | |
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It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted 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. 
