| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - Art - 1843 - 612 pages
...the Roman Empire, can forget that, whilst — " It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...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 referred to, that he terminated... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1843 - 588 pages
...enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation." In another place he remarks, " It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the rums of the capital, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Italy - 1843 - 616 pages
...connexion with Gibbon. It was in this church, as he himself tells us, " on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers, that the idta of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind/' In front of the... | |
| 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 thought... | |
| American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...or enjoyed, before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of...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 plan was circumscribed... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...choice was determined by an incident of a striking and romantic nature. 'As I sat musing,' he says, ' With screaming Horror's funeral cry, De=pa!r, and fell Disease, and ghastly the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.' Many years, however,... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1844 - 830 pages
...in the mind of Gibbon, and induced him to write " The Decline and Fall of 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,... | |
| William Ingraham Kip - Rome (Italy) - 1846 - 478 pages
...Eternal City." It was in this Church — as he himself tells us — " on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind." To the Romanist,... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 580 pages
...the Capitoline Hill at Rome, as Gibbon himself tells us : ' On the fifteenth of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind.' "Why is Pompeii... | |
| JAMES WHITESIDE - 1848 - 412 pages
...Bambino after such an avowal ? Gibbon informs us that it was here, on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers, that the idea of writing the " Decline and Fall" first entered his mind. Supposing the historian to... | |
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