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. Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham - Page 219 by Englishmen - 1836 Full view -
|