 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), Octavian Blewitt - 1850 - 750 σελίδες
...himself tells us, "on the 15tl of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers,...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... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 σελίδες
...after his arrival there, on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing on the ruins of the capital, the idea of writing the " Decline and Fall of the city," first started to his mind. His original plan, he adds, was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire; and... | |
 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 σελίδες
...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 entered my mind." Happy infirmity of purpose, which had such a noble termination in the immortal labours... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 572 σελίδες
...ruins of the Capitol, and 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 his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, that he wrote the last lines of the last page in the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 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 my mind.' Many years, however, elapsed before ho carried his intentions into effect. On his return... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 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 my mind. * * * * It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1853 - 394 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." In front of the ch., facing the Campidoglio, are the 124 steps of Grecian marble said to have belonged... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 σελίδες
...ruins of the Capitol, and 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 his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, that he wrote the last lines of the last page in the... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 σελίδες
...ruins of the Capitol, and 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 his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, that he wrote the last lines of the last page in the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 σελίδες
...the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,7 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... | |
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