...: " It was at Rome, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, on the 15th of October, 1764, 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. It was on the...

...with his great theme before. "At Kome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing...the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." So too the history of England was no novel subject to Macaulay. It had been...

...beauty. How interesting it is to be told by Gibbon, that " it was when he was mus ing in 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 his mind." The motive arising...

...with his great theme before. "At Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing...the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." So too the history of England was no novel subject to Macaulay. It had been...

...has much to do in directing it to suitable employment. 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...

...quoting it : 'It was at Rome, on the fifteenth 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, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original...

...romantic circumstances in which the great resolve was made : — "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing...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...

...romantic circumstances in which the great resolve was made : — " As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing...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...

...transacted within it. One can quite understand Gibbon's statement, that " as he sat musing amidst 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." That was in 1764, — a hundred years ago: but a hundred years are as nothing...

...difference. " 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, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city 'first started to my mind." How differently...