 | Charles Rockwell - Europe, Southern - 1842 - 440 pages
...when he says, — " 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." Thus originated... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1842 - 660 pages
...things ! — scarce even amid the ruins of the Capitol itself, on the summit of Ara Coeli, where, " while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter," Gibbon first conceived the mighty project of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ! Indeed, we... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 612 pages
...that, whilst — " It was at Rome, on the loth of October, 1764, as he 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 that work first started to his mind ;" it was in the garden at Lausanne just... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...that, whilst — _" It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as he 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 that work first started to his mind ;" it was in the garden at Lausanne just... | |
 | 1844 - 636 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...determined by an incident of a striking and romantic nature. 'As I sat musing,' he says, ' amidst the ruins orror's funeral cry, De=pa!r, and fell Disease, and ghastly first started to my mind.' Many years, however, elapsed before he realised his intentions. On returning... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1844 - 830 pages
...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, now the Church of the Franciscans, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th 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 this Decline and Fall ol the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...framing my own panegyric. 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. But my original... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 pages
...framing my own panegyric. 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. But my original... | |
| |
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. 
