 | Biography - 1837 - 320 pages
...what he saw ; and it was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friar a were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that...the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind. This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented him... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...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 his mind." He returned from Italy in 1765, and again entered the militia — to please his father —... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...of the muse, in the choice of his subject and in the conduct of his work. " It was," says Gibbon, " as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind."* In the same manner, we have often thought, every work which we call a work of genius has been produced,... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 482 pages
...trace the links which connected what he had read with what he saw ; and it was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars...the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind. This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented him... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pages
...Gibbon, " on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sate musing amidst " the ruins of the Capitol, whilst the barefooted friars were " singing vespers in the...and Fall of the city first started to my " mind." XC. How much of life is lost ! The entire sentiment is from Pliny : while gazing on the same scenes... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 512 pages
...and it was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were .tinging vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of...the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented him... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1838 - 724 pages
...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, (now the church of the Franciscan friars,) that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind." To a man destitute of the sound religious knowledge which is inseparable from true piety, who identified... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 542 pages
...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 his mind. Many years however elapsed before he began the composi noli of the ' Decline and Fall.' On... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pages
...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 his mind. , Many years however elapsed before he began the composi1 lion of the ' Decline and Fall.'... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter3, 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... | |
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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. 
