 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
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...says, at Rome, on the 1 5th of October, 1 764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, and while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in...the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, that he wrote the last lines of the last page... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - Italy - 1853 - 394 pages
...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." In front of the ch., facing the Campidoglio, are the 124 steps of Grecian marble said to... | |
 | William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 pages
...musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing lEABJfDfG AND LABOURS. vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1854 - 468 pages
...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire ; and though... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pages
...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (then a church of the Franciscans), that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." By-and-bye the decline and fall of the city expanded into the Decline and Fall of the Empire; and,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire ; and though... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (then a church of the Franciscans), that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." By-and-bye the decline and fall of the city expanded into the Decline and Fall of the Empire ; and,... | |
 | English literature - 1856 - 668 pages
...than the legitimate citadel by its side. Hence we shall not be surprised to find the temple itself called sometimes the Arx Capitolii, nor be perplexed...supposed accordingly to stand upon the rival summit. All respect to the error, if error it be, to which we may possibly owe the greatest monument of historical... | |
 | English literature - 1856 - 594 pages
...October, 1764, as I sate musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were sinking vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of...supposed accordingly to stand upon the rival summit. All respect to the error, if error it be, to which we may possibly owe the greatest monument of historical... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...the ruins of the capital, 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 mind.' He returned from Italy in 1765, and again entered the militia as lieutenantcolonel commandant... | |
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