 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 lehte
...Gibbon. He had been long conversant with his great theme before. "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, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 lehte
...history. His own words teH us of the romantic circumstances in which the great resolve was made : — "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the... | |
 | 1862 - 1156 lehte
...mark more distinctly this difference. " It was at Rome, (says Gibbon) 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... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 lehte
...Concerning the origin of his 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... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 lehte
...history. His own words tell us of the romantic circumstances in which the great resolve was made : — " As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 lehte
...associations decided Gibbon in writing his great work. " 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 lehte
...experience and taste,' named Byers ; and ' it was at Home,' says he, ' 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 lehte
...AUTORIOGRAPHY. CONCEPTION AND COMPLETION OF HIS HISTORY. 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... | |
 | James Linen - 1865 - 438 lehte
...ROUSSEAU, AND MALEBRANCHE BYRON AND BURNS. GIBBON says : "It was at Rome, 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1865 - 536 lehte
...geniuses to display their powers. " Tt was at Bome," says Gibbon, " on the 15th of Octoher, 176-1, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the hare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the Decline... | |
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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. 
