 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...GIBBON'S ACCOUNT OF THE COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION OF HIS GREAT WORK. IN Rome, 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. * * * * It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...of a striking and romantic nature. ' As I sat musing,' he says, ' amidst the ruins of the Capital, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers...the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.' Many years, however, elapsed before he carried his intentions into effect. On his return... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 572 pages
...of the Capitol, and 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 his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, that he wrote the last lines of the last page in the... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 pages
...he was inclined to lead us astray. His work was first conceived in Rome, " as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter : " and its prevalent tone might, with no very wide stretch of fancy, be supposed to retain symptoms... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 pages
...says, at Rome, on the 1 5th of October, 1 764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, and 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 his mind. It was on the... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1853 - 394 pages
...It was in this ch., as he himself tells us, "on the 15th of October, 1764, 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." In front of the... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...says, at Rome, on the 1 5th of October, 1 764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, and 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 his mind. It was on the... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1851 - 558 pages
...long been his cherished ambition to produce some great historical work ; and as he "sat musing among the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars...decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." It was not, however, carried out in haste ; he again undertook the duties of a militia officer ; and... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1854 - 360 pages
...accident has much to do in directing it to suitable employments. Had not Gibbon sat " musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars...singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of the "decline and fall of the city" might not have " started in his mind." Many an author who has enlightened... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1854 - 610 pages
...much to do in directing it to suitable employments. Had not Gibbon sat " musing amidst the •uins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of the "decline and fall of the eity" might not have " started in his mind." Many an author who has enlightened... | |
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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 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. 
