 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
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1843 - 616 σελίδες
...musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers, that the idta of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind/' In front of the church, facing the Campidoglio, are the 124 steps of Grecian marble said to have belonged... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1844 - 830 σελίδες
...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, now the Church of the Franciscans, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started in my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than the empire,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 σελίδες
...the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, g Folly's idle brood, \Vilil Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, An my mind.' Many years, however, elapsed before he realised his intentions. On returning to England in... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 σελίδες
...himself tells us — " on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers,...Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind." To the Romanist, on the contrary, this Church derives its veneration from a miraculous wooden figure... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 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 - 1846 - 406 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... | |
 | 1847 - 762 σελίδες
...lath of October, 1"G4, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, whijfthj^ barefooted /riws were singing vespers, that the idea of writing the...decline and fall of the city first started to his mind.' , ;" T,o the Romanist, oa the, contrary, this church derives its veneration from a miraculous wooden... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 σελίδες
...himself tells us : "On the fifteenth of October, 1764, as he sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers,...views a city that was old when CHRIST was a babe, the well preserved homes of a thousand happy circles all of whom perished long before our ancestors had... | |
 | JAMES WHITESIDE - 1848 - 412 σελίδες
...us that it was here, on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers, that the idea of writing the " Decline and Fall" first entered his mind. Supposing the historian to have witnessed such an exhibition as I have described,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 σελίδες
...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 was not to be executed, or even begun, without immense preparatory... | |
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