 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 4931848Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 478 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." That was in 1764, — a hundred years ago: but a hundred years are as nothing when you stand among... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 456 σελίδες
...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in 44 THE VIA CRUCIS IN THE COLISEUM. the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." That was in 1 764, — a hundred years ago : but a hundred years are as nothing when you stand among... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 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 started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire... | |
 | 1862 - 1156 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." How differently would this have -been described by an old Hebrew prophet. After describing... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 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." The same man, Edward Gibbon, has thus described the completion of his great work at Lausanne,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 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." The same man, Edward Gibbon, has thus described the completion of his great work at Lausanne,... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1863 - 432 σελίδες
...library at ConHtantinople, and is the seventh book in the second ehelf on the right hand aa you go in.' friars were singing vespers, that the idea of writing...Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind.' Our visit to Ara Cœli was to appearance unavailing. In the silent basilica, there were but two persons... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 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." He returned from Italy in 1765, and again entered the militia — to please his father — as lieutenant-colonel... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 σελίδες
...the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, make them five!' ' My Lady Rochford,' writes Horace Walpolo, ' my mind." It is to be observed that he thought only of the history of the city, not of the empire,... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 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 started to my mind." Gay's " Beggars' Opera" originated in a remark made by Swift to Gay, " What an odd pretty... | |
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