 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 4221856Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were fmging vefpers in. the Temple of Jupiter *f, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city firft ftartcd to my mind. But my original plan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | John Blair Linn - Genius - 1802 - 196 pages
...ruins of the capitol, while the bare-footed friars were tinging vespers in the temple of Jupiter, tb/at the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." No more are heard the precepts of her sage ; Nor treads Euripides his moral stage; Her orators, her... | |
 | John Blair Linn - American poetry - 1804 - 192 pages
...I could descend to a minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October,' 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while the...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." Gothic Darkness. While mournful wandering her eccentric way She lights the ruins with her trembling... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...15th of October 17C4, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my orignal plan was circumscribed to the dtcav of the city rather than of the empire : and, though... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1807 - 538 pages
...geniuses to display their powers It was at Rome (says Gibbon) on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the...decline and fall of the City first started to my mind. Father Mallebranche having compleated his studies in philosophy, and theology, without any other intention... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1813 - 532 pages
...finging vefpers in the temple of Jupiter (now the church of the Zoccolants, or Francifcan friars), that the idea of writing the DECLINE and FALL of the city firft ftarted to his mind." But this appears to have been merely the effect of local emotion. His plan... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...15th of October 1?64, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter*, that...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire: and, though... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (now the church of the Zoccolants, or Franciscan friars) that the idea of writing the DECLINE and FALL of the city first started to his mind." But this appears to have been merely the effect of local emotion, for his plan wasi then... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 548 pages
...were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (now the church of the Zoccolants, or Franciscan friarS) that the idea of writing the DECLINE and FALL of the city first started to his mind." But this appears to have been merely the effect of local emotion, for his plan was then... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire : and, though... | |
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