 It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I 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 of the city first started to my mind.  A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen - Page 219by George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 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 of... | |
 | 1963 - 528 pages
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 | Hugh Kenner - 2000 - 184 pages
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 | 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...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... | |
 | Philip Gooden - 2002 - 520 pages
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 | H.v. Morton - 2009 - 256 pages
...his life's work. 'It was at Rome, on the I5th of October, 1764,' he wrote, '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.' In his time S.... | |
 | Gough Whitlam, Edward Gough Whitlam - 2002 - 368 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot 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.' On Ash Wednesday in the following year James Boswell decided to keep explicit accounts, social... | |
 | Philip Allott - 2002 - 448 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.' J. Murray (ed.), The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon (London, John Murray; 1896), p. 302.... | |
 | Richard Brookhiser - 2002 - 258 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." Gibbon was inspired by Rome; Henry was inspired by Gibbon. "Our house," he wrote his brother,... | |
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