 | 1860 - 600 Seiten
...knowledge forced authorship on Gibbon. He had been long conversant with his great theme before. " At Home, on the 15th. of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst...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." So too the history... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1860 - 610 Seiten
...308 THE RUINS OF THE CAPITOL. Gibbon informs us that it was here, on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers, that he first conceived the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Supposing the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 Seiten
...that knowledge forced authorship on Gibbon. He had been long conversant with his great theme before. "At Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing...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." So too the history... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1861 - 340 Seiten
...developes genius, but accident has much to do in directing it to suitable employment. Had not Gibbon sat " musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...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... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 Seiten
...history. His own words tell us of the romantic circumstances in which the great resolve was made : — " As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...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... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 Seiten
...history. His own words teH us of the romantic circumstances in which the great resolve was made : — "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol,...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... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 478 Seiten
...modern pageant which is transacted within it. One can quite understand Gibbon's statement, that " as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...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,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 538 Seiten
...zerland, and Italy; ting France, S\vitnd it was while he at musing among the ruins of the Capitol, and the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing a history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire first arose in his mind. Several other historical... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 456 Seiten
...modern pageant which is 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 singing vespers in 44 THE VIA CRUCIS IN THE COLISEUM. the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
 | William Chambers - 1862 - 150 Seiten
...of writing his great work occurred to him. He says, that 'it was on the i$th of October 1 764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind.' Our visit to... | |
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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. 
