| Josiah Conder - 1831 - 532 pages
...rarest antique stones, and exceedingly uneven from age. It was in this church, ' as he sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars...were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,' that Gibbon first conceived, as he tells us, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the City. To a... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1832 - 540 pages
...France, Switzerland, and Italy; and it was while he sat musing among the ruins of the Capitol, and the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing a history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire first arose in his mind. Several other historical... | |
| John Gorton - 1833 - 820 pages
...himself informs us, on the lath October in that year, as he sat musing among the ruins of the capítol, " while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter," that his idea of writing the decline and fall of the Roman empire entered his mind. He had previously thought... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1834 - 600 pages
...being — coloured the whole character of his future work. ' It was,' he says, ' at Rome, on the loth 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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 590 pages
...being — coloured the whole character of his future work. ' It was,' he says, 'at Rome, on the loth 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... | |
| 1834 - 602 pages
...months at Lausanne, he proceeded to Rome, where u " he sat musing amongst the ruins of the capítol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and Tall of the city first started to his mind." He returned from Italy... | |
| 576 pages
...sublime conception first entered the author's mind, he was sitting musing among the ruins of the capital, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter. But it was through a dark and dreary chaos that he had to work his way. No English work existed which... | |
| Isaac Disraeli, Jsaac D'Jsraeli - 1835 - 524 pages
...Accident has frequently occasioned the most geniuses to display their powers. It was at Rome, says Gibbon, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst...Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and faU of the City first started to my mind. Father Malebranche having completed his studies in philosophy... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 630 pages
...was at Rome, as he himself informs us, on the 15th of October, in that year, as he sat musing among the ruins of the capitol, " while the barefooted friars...were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter," that his idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire entered his mind. He had previously thought... | |
| 1836 - 506 pages
...trace the links which connected what he had read with what he saw ; and it was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars...of writing the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind. This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented... | |
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