 It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the 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.  Curiosities of Literature - Page 134by Isaac Disraeli - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Catharine Edwards - 1999 - 316 pages
...description. Draft 'E' of the Memoirs points this up even more clearly: It was at Rome on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the 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... | |
 | David Ricks, Michael Silk - 2000 - 176 pages
...Memoirs, based on the fifth manuscript draft, is closer to the wording in the History: 'It was at Rome, on the 15th of October [1764], as I sat musing amidst the 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... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 2001 - 364 pages
...in the Temple of Jupiter on the ruins of the Capitol. Alternatively: It was at Rome on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the 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... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 pages
...conception and the completion of his ambitious historical project: "It was at Rome on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the 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... | |
 | David Ricks, Michael Silk - 2000 - 172 pages
...manuscript draft. is closer to the wording in the History: 'It was at Rome. on the l5th of October [ l764]. as I sat musing amidst the 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... | |
 | G. R. R. Treasure - 2002 - 550 pages
...was in the ruins of the Forum, on October 15, 1764, that he felt inspired to write a historical epic: "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol,...friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, . . . the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." Thorough and... | |
 | Philip Allott - 2002 - 448 pages
...we may say that its being was in its modest not-nothingness. 33 31 'It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the 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... | |
 | Richard Brookhiser - 2002 - 258 pages
...Gibbon decided to write the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: "It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline... | |
 | Gough Whitlam, Edward Gough Whitlam - 2002 - 368 pages
...Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764,' wrote Edward Gibbon in the final version of his Memoirs, 'as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot fryars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 pages
...a chequered tale that led up to the historian's fateful decision: 'It was at Rome on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the 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... | |
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