 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...of a striking and romantic nature. ' As I sat musing,' he says, ' amidst the ruins of the Capital, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers...the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.' Many years, however, elapsed before he carried his intentions into effect.... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 Seiten
...inclined to lead us astray. His work was first conceived in Rome, " as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter : " and its prevalent tone might, with no very wide stretch of fancy, be supposed to retain symptoms... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 Seiten
...says, at Rome, on the 1 5th of October, 1 764, as he sat musing amidst the 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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 Seiten
...says, at Rome, on the 1 5th of October, 1 764, as he sat musing amidst the 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... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1854 - 360 Seiten
...has much to do in directing it to suitable employments. Had not Gibbon sat " musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of the "decline and fall of the city" might not have " started in his mind." Many an author who has enlightened... | |
 | William Spalding - 1854 - 446 Seiten
...inclined to lead us astray. His work was first conceived in Rome, " as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter : " and its prevalent tone might, with no very wide stretch of fancy, be supposed to retain symptoms... | |
 | 1854 - 428 Seiten
...magazine. " It was at Rome," says Gibbon, " on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (then a church of the Franciscans), that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first... | |
 | Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1854 - 540 Seiten
...of Rome, pondering upon the great work upon which his future fame was to rest. It was amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the historian mused over the plan of his " Decline and Fall ; " and it was amid the destruction... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 Seiten
...magazine. " It was at Rome," says Gibbon, " on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (then a church of the Franciscans), that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first... | |
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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. 
