 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...celebrated work, he says : — "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 the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | John William Burgon - Catacombs - 1862 - 456 pages
...the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in 44 THE VIA CRUCIS IN THE COLISEUM. the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." That was in 1 764, — a hundred years ago : but a hundred years are as... | |
 | David Pryde - Authors, English - 1862 - 160 pages
...some great historical work, and as he sat one evening, amid the ruins of the City of the Csesars, " while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter," the subject of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was suggested. When all the volumes of the work... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1995 - 596 pages
...his future in a moment. "It was at Rome, on the i5th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid 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."3 For all his emotions,... | |
 | John Carswell - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 328 pages
...Encouraged, late one even1 'It was at Rome, on the 1sth of October, 1764, as I sat musing among 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' (Gibbon, Memoirs... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...minute investigation. ... 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. He enlarged his... | |
 | David Lowenthal - History - 1985 - 522 pages
...fell', provided his crucial inspiration: 'On the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing 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.'350 The effigies of the French kings in the Musee des Monuments vivified... | |
 | Peter Brown - History - 1989 - 364 pages
...of his Decline and Fall. It was twelve years before that, in 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." In January 1976,... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...decay'. Gibbon claimed to have conceived the idea of his history as he sat 'musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefooted 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... | |
 | Walter Laqueur - History - 1996 - 244 pages
...recalls how one day in October 1764 as he was musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of Rome first started to his mind. There was a grandeur to the Capitoline Hill and the Forum Romanum even... | |
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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. 
