 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...and is immortalised in his own picturesque words : " As I sat musing," he says, " amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing...the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." But so gigantic a task was not to be executed, or even begun, without immense... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...and minute investigation. It was at Rome on the 15th October, 1764, as I sat miihingamids the ruins that the idea of writing this Decline and Fall ol the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 844 pages
...and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 1 >(h October 1764, as I eat 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 of the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...1764, and is immortalised in his own picturesque words: "As I sat musing," he says, "amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of 286 OUTLINES or GENERAL LITERATURE. [CHAP. xv. Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of... | |
 | England - 1849 - 822 pages
...investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th October 1764, as I eat musing amidst the ruins of the Capítol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing this Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 pages
...memorable record :—" It was at Borne, 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 entered my mind." Happy infirmity of... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 pages
...aud 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 of the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 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 of the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...ACCOUNT OF THE COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION OF HIS GREAT WORK. IN Rome, as I sat musing amidst 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 my mind. * * * * It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...determined by an incident of a striking and romantic nature. ' As I sat musing,' he says, ' amidst 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 my mind.' Many years, however, elapsed before ho carried his intentions into effect.... | |
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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. 
