 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
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 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.' Accident upon accident, yet something predestined too: 'my own religious folly, my father's... | |
 | María Eugenia Díaz Sánchez, Craig Douglas Dworkin - 2004 - 148 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" (p. 305), 60 Rossi, p. 21. 61 Pound's own view of the fragment might he deduced from his own... | |
 | Rakesh V. Vohra - 2005 - 218 pages
...caveat emptor. 14 'It was at Rome, on the 15th October 1764', Gibbon writes, 'as I sat musing amid 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'. 71 chapters, 2,136... | |
 | Peter Edgerly Firchow, Hermann Josef Real - 2005 - 412 pages
...my thoughts turned to another man sitting in Rome on the 15th of October 1764: 'As I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter.'"11 Do I need to inform you that I am quoting Edward Gibbon and referring to The Decline and... | |
 | Rakesh V. Vohra - 2005 - 212 pages
...at Rome, on the 15th October 1764', Gibbon writes, 'as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capital, 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'. 71 chapters, 2,136... | |
 | Rosalie Hook - 2006 - 360 pages
...records this moment of epiphany: "It was at Rome, on the i5th 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" (Gibbon 85). 52.... | |
 | Harold James - 2006 - 192 pages
...of the Roman history came: it was at Rome on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the temple of lupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.6 This... | |
 | Dominic Head - 2006 - 1241 pages
...the ruins of the Capitol, while 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.' He had, meanwhile, been 434 producing a mass of miscellaneous reviews and exercises, including... | |
 | T. C. W. Blanning - 2007 - 764 pages
...Gibbon recorded in his Memoirs: '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 [the Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli], that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first... | |
 | Joseph Epstein - 2007 - 340 pages
...while the barefoot fryars [of the Franciscan Order] 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." Although it would take him nearly eight and a half years before he got down to the actual... | |
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