 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.  1785-1824 - Page 194edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pages
...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.' Before settling on the final choice for his life's work, however, he made several false... | |
 | Hal L. Boudreau - 1998 - 284 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted 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. (Gibbon 1896, 302; Memoir E) 3 The memory of the event is thinner and fainter than Gibbon... | |
 | Daniel Merkur - 1999 - 204 pages
...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 (pp. 122-24). The ancient history of Rome gave meaning to Gibbons experience of the city... | |
 | Peter Cosgrove - 1999 - 300 pages
...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." 47 Gibbon's later struggles to refine and mount the revelation of his calling at the center... | |
 | Catharine Edwards - 1999 - 316 pages
...ruins of the Capitol while the barefooted 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.1 The scene is one which we may at the present day have some difficulty in recapturing,... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 1999 - 372 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted 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.25 Because the journal breaks offon 2 October, and contains no account of this or any other... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot 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. Autobiography (1796) 1961:154. 10 I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work... | |
 | David Ricks, Michael Silk - 2000 - 172 pages
...ruins of the Capitol. while the bare-footed 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. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than the empire.... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 pages
...ruins of the Capitol while the barefooted 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" (136). If this is a rudimentary Wordsworthian "spot of time," with its powerful mixture... | |
 | G. R. R. Treasure - 2002 - 550 pages
...Forum, on October 15, 1764, that he felt inspired to write a historical epic: "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars...writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." Thorough and single-minded as in everything, he spent the next four months on a complete... | |
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