 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...says, at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, and while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in...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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...eleven months amongst his old friends, he proceeded to Italy. It 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...this sketch, those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst...of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...this sketch, those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst...of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 pages
...those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the loth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to rny mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of... | |
 | 1837 - 272 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... | |
 | 1837 - 320 pages
...what he saw ; and it was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friar a were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 pages
...fixed the source of his fame. "It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as he sat musing umidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (now the church of the Zoccolants, or Franciscan friars), that the idea of writing the DECUNE and FA... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...eleven months amongst his old friends, he proceeded to Italy. It 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... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...of the muse, in the choice of his subject and in the conduct of his work. " It was," says Gibbon, " as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind."* In the same manner, we have often thought, every work which we call a work of... | |
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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 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 my mind. 
