 | Cheshire (England) - 1867 - 694 pages
...undertake some important historical work, is dated Rome, October 15th, 1764, and is in these words : — " 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... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1867 - 296 pages
...undertake some important historical work, is dated Rome, October 15th, 1764, and is in these words : — " 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... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY. CONCEPTION AND COMPLETION or ins HISTORY. It was at Bome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars l were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1878 - 296 pages
...Presiilctli from His Throne Jlctniff .Justice to His people -Tho' the "Jleavena be undone." — Azn.12. if AS I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temp] of Jupiter, the idea of writing the 'Dcfliileand Fall' of... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY." 206• CONCEPTION AND COMPLETION OF HIS HISTORY. It was at Rome, on the I5th 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... | |
 | 1871 - 550 pages
...Champagny that it may be worth while to compare the two. " 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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...employment to the best years of his life. " It was at Rome," says he, "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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1873 - 840 pages
...best manner. * ' It was 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 " first started to my mind.' — G:bboiis Memoirs. The two first volumes of his ' Monks of the West... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 600 pages
...of the ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire': — '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... | |
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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. 
