 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 sidor
...experience and taste,' named Byers ; and ' it was at Home,' says he, ' 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... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 sidor
...associations decided Gibbon in writing his great work. " 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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 sidor
...eleven months amongst his old friends, he proceeded to Italy. Jt was at Rome, as " he sat musing amongst 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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1864 - 608 sidor
...not surprised, therefore, to find him add : — One can quite understand Gibbon's statement, that aa he sat musing amidst 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 firs started to his... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1995 - 596 sidor
...determined his future in a moment. "It was at Rome, on the i5th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid 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... | |
 | John Carswell - 1978 - 328 sidor
...comedy. Encouraged, late one even1 'It was at Rome, on the 1sth of October, 1764, as I sat musing among 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sidor
...descend to a cool and minute investigation. ... 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... | |
 | David Lowenthal - 1985 - 522 sidor
...Tully spoke, or Caesar fell', provided his crucial inspiration: '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, . . . the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started... | |
 | Peter Brown - 1989 - 364 sidor
...published the f1rst volume of his Decline and Fall. It was twelve years before that, in 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... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 sidor
...encouraged a taste for ruins and 'pleasing decay'. Gibbon claimed to have conceived the idea of his history as he sat 'musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter', and his last chapter, which begins by quoting Poggio, is a meditation upon... | |
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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 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. 
