 IT was at Rome, on the 15th of October, ' 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of ' the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars ' were singing vespers in the Temple of Ju'piter that the idea of writing the Decline 'and Fall of the City first started to...  Musings Without Method: A Record of 1900-01 - Pagina 154de Charles Whibley - 1902 - 323 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Edward Oscar Dyer - 1903 - 352 pagini
...COUNTRY OF CONNECTICUT .... 277 ECHOES AND RIPPLES 287 PREFACE Gibbon tells us that it was at Rome, as he 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 480 pagini
...some of the best French literary society ; and in Rome, as he tells us in a well-known passage, while he sat "musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter" (which is now the Church of the Ara Coeli), —... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pagini
...helpful for the future historian. In 1764 he travelled on the continent; and, at Rome, he tells us, 'as he 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 History of the Decline... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1907 - 394 pagini
...is imported into the narrative from the fifth. "It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...fryars 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 If, however,... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1908 - 542 pagini
...composition of the last two volumes was finished. ' It was at Rome, on the i5th of October, 1764', as he 'sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to' his mind3; and 'it was... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1908 - 550 pagini
...composition of the last two volumes was finished. 'It was at Rome, on the 151(1 of October, 1764', as he 'sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to' his mind"; and 'it was... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1908 - 328 pagini
...I have put you to. EDWARD GIBBON A LECTURE ' IT was at Rome, on the 1 $th of October, ' 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of ' the Capitol, while...bare-footed fryars ' were singing vespers in the Temple of Ju' piter that the idea of writing the Decline 'and Fall of the City first started to my ' mind. '... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Manuscripts - 1912 - 398 pagini
...conception of the idea of writing his history : "It was at Kome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...fryars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that I conceived the first thought of my history." Holograph. [Add. MS. 34874.] 20. THOMAS CHATTERTON... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 646 pagini
...month, as he records in a passage which is one of the landmarks of historical literature, it was —as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...fryars 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. * For, as he adds,... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1915 - 484 pagini
...composition of the last two volumes was finished. 'It was at Rome, on the 1510 of October, 1764', as he ' sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to' his mind; and 'it was on... | |
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