 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.  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Σελίδα 3371848Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1838 - 542 σελίδες
...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. Many years however elapsed before he began the composi noli of the ' Decline and Fall.' On his return... | |
 | 1838 - 542 σελίδες
...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. , Many years however elapsed before he began the composi1 lion of the ' Decline and Fall.' On his return... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1838 - 724 σελίδες
...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, (now the church of the Franciscan friars,) that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind." To a man destitute of the sound religious knowledge which is inseparable from true piety,... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 546 σελίδες
...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."* In the same manner, we have often thought, every work which we call a work of genius has... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 σελίδες
...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."* In the same manner, we have often thought, every work which we call a work of genius has... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 σελίδες
...ruins of the Capitol, whilst 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." XC. How much of life is lost ! The entire sentiment is from Pliny : while gazing on the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 σελίδες
...ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter3, that the idea 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 the empire... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 σελίδες
...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 σελίδες
...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire... | |
 | Charles Rockwell - 1842 - 440 σελίδες
...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." Thus originated one of the most learned works that was ever written ; and when we consider... | |
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