 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 - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...at Rome,' he states in a famous passage in his Memoirs, 'on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefooted...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.' Before settling on the final choice for his life's work, however, he made several false starts, including... | |
 | Hal L. Boudreau - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 284 pages
...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...decline and fall of the City first started to my mind. (Gibbon 1896, 302; Memoir E) 3 The memory of the event is thinner and fainter than Gibbon would desire.... | |
 | Daniel Merkur - Psychology - 1999 - 204 pages
...descend to a cool and minute investigation. ... It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1794, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind (pp. 122-24). The ancient history of Rome gave meaning to Gibbons experience of the city of 1794 because... | |
 | Peter Cosgrove - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 300 pages
...Lord Sheffield, after the historian's death: "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." 47 Gibbon's later struggles to refine and mount the revelation of his calling at the center of his... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - Political Science - 1999 - 372 pages
...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 decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.25 Because the journal breaks offon 2 October, and contains no account of this or any other Roman... | |
 | Catharine Edwards - History - 1999 - 316 pages
...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 decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.1 The scene is one which we may at the present day have some difficulty in recapturing, since... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. Autobiography (1796) 1961:154. 10 I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work without betraying... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 302 pages
...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...decline and fall of the City first started to my mind" (136). If this is a rudimentary Wordsworthian "spot of time," with its powerful mixture of circumstantial... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - History - 2001 - 364 pages
...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...decline and fall of the City first started to my mind." Because the journal breaks off on 2 October, and contains no account of this or any other Roman experience,... | |
 | David Ricks, Michael Silk - Greece - 2000 - 172 pages
...l5th of October [ l764]. 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 the empire. . .' ift Note... | |
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