 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 - 282. oldalSzerkesztette: - 1834Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 420 oldal
...of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, and while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that...the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1 787, that he wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 oldal
...the ruins of the Capitol, 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 my mind." Many years, however, elapsed before he carried his intentions into effect. On his return to England,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 oldal
...writes, "on the 15th of Oct. 1764, as I sat mnsing amid the ruins of the capitol, while barefooted friars 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... | |
 | Robert Spoo - 1994 - 208 oldal
...of the Coliseum. It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1 764, as 1 sat musing amidst the 14 ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryars...the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.3 Gibbon speaks of an ironic overlap of the past and the present, of a communion in the midst... | |
 | John Varriano - 1995 - 304 oldal
...1jth 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...writing the decline and fall of the city first started in my mind'/' Many are those of lesser talent and lesser ambition in whom Rome ignited a similar spark.... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1995 - 628 oldal
...more fascinating. Probably it was more vital in May, 1860, than it had been in October, 1764, when the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first ROME started to the mind of Gibbon, 'in the close of the evening, as I sat musing in the Church of... | |
 | Catharine Edwards - 1996 - 168 oldal
...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...the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.'1 Why should inspiration come to Gibbon on the Capitol? This was an area of Rome where, by the... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 572 oldal
...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...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... | |
 | Luigi Barzini - 1996 - 388 oldal
...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...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.' Only dead Italians were deemed worthy of attention, the longer dead the more worthy. The eighteenth-century... | |
 | Hal L. Boudreau - 1998 - 284 oldal
...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...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.... | |
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