 | 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... | |
 | David Pryde - 1862 - 160 Seiten
...some great historical work, and as he sat one evening, amid the ruins of the City of the Csesars, " while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter," the subject of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was suggested. When all the volumes of the... | |
 | 1863 - 662 Seiten
...Gibbon has recorded to us how the first idea of his immortal work presented itself to his mind as he sat ' musing amidst the ruins of the ' Capitol, while...were singing vespers in the ' Temple of Jupiter.' But his original plan, as he himself adds, ' was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley - 1916 - 332 Seiten
...Decline and Fall may likewise be instanced : » "It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, that as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
 | David Lowenthal - 1985 - 522 Seiten
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell', provided his crucial inspiration: '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.'350 The effigies... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 Seiten
...conceived the first thought of my history" (D, 4056). And the second: "It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 Seiten
...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...friars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter', and his last chapter, which begins by quoting Poggio, is a meditation upon Rome's remains. More than... | |
 | Catharine Edwards - 1996 - 168 Seiten
...Empire (1776-88) is one of the best known of any work of literature: 'It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
 | Luigi Barzini - 1996 - 388 Seiten
...the frailty of human greatness and inspired some to higher achievements. 'It was at Rome, on the i5th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol,' remembered Gibbon, 'while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that... | |
 | Hal L. Boudreau - 1998 - 284 Seiten
...thought of my history. (Gibbon 1896,405-6; Memoir D, written 1790-91) It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
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October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,7 that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. 
