 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 pages
...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 city first started to my mind." So too the history of England was no novel subject to Macaulay. It had been his favorite... | |
 | William Chambers - 1862 - 150 pages
...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.' Our visit to Ara Cccli was to appearance unavailing. In the silent basilica, there were but two persons... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 478 pages
...the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." That was in 1764, — a hundred years ago: but a hundred years are as nothing when you stand among... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 456 pages
...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 nothing when you stand among... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...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 plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire... | |
 | 1862 - 1156 pages
...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." How differently would this have -been described by an old Hebrew prophet. After describing... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...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 city first started to my mind." The same man, Edward Gibbon, has thus described the completion of his great work at Lausanne,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...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 city first started to my mind." The same man, Edward Gibbon, has thus described the completion of his great work at Lausanne,... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1863 - 432 pages
...the seventh book in the second ehelf on the right hand aa you go in.' friars were singing vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind.' Our visit to Ara Cœli was to appearance unavailing. In the silent basilica, there were but two persons... | |
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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. 
