 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
 | 1863 - 662 pages
...Gibbon has recorded to us how the first idea of his immortal work presented itself to his mind as he sat ' musing amidst the ruins of the ' Capitol, while...were singing vespers in the ' Temple of Jupiter.' But his original plan, as he himself adds, ' was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 pages
...eleven months amongst his old friends, he proceeded to Italy. Jt was at Rome, as " he sat musing amongst the ruins of the capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." He returned from Italy... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1864 - 608 pages
...surprised, therefore, to find him add : — One can quite understand Gibbon's statement, that aa he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city firs started to his mind. This is pretty good... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1865 - 536 pages
...geniuses to display their powers. " Tt was at Bome," says Gibbon, " on the 15th of Octoher, 176-1, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the hare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the Decline... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 pages
...Rome, October 15th, 1764, and is immortalised in his own picturesque words: "As I sat musing/' he says, "amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted...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." But so gigantic a task... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1867 - 296 pages
...undertake some important historical work, is dated Rome, October 15th, 1764, and is in these words : — " 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." It was twelve years... | |
 | 1867 - 694 pages
...undertake some important historical work, is dated Rome, October 15th, 1764, and is in these words : — " 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." It was twelve years... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - 1867 - 1030 pages
...the idea of his great work, the " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," at Rome, in 1764, as he sat amidst the ruins of the Capitol, "while the barefooted...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter ; " and he has eloquently recorded the mixed emotions with which, one moonlight night of June, 1787,... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He himself says, that as he "sat musing amongst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea uf writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." He returned to England... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...(History, p. 190.) 149. From his AUTOBIOGRAPHY. CONCEPTION AND COMPLETION or ins HISTORY. It was at Bome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst...ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars l were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the... | |
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