 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 - الصفحة 284المحررون: - 1834عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...that " it was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singina vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall or the city first started to his mind." The motive arising from the hope of L.100 is not likely to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...authorship on Gibbon. He had been long conversant with his great theme before. "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, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the... | |
 | 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 1156
...an illustration to mark more distinctly this difference. " It was at Rome, (says Gibbon) on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...religion. Concerning the origin of his celebrated work, he says : — "It was at Rome, on the 15th 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... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 678
...history. His own words tell us of the romantic circumstances in which the great resolve was made : — " As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...history. His own words teH us of the romantic circumstances in which the great resolve was made : — "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 880
...a Scotchman ' of experience and taste,' named Byers ; and ' it was at Home,' says he, ' on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 60
...Colosseum and its associations decided Gibbon in writing his great work. " 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...207. FROM HIS AUTORIOGRAPHY. CONCEPTION AND COMPLETION OF HIS HISTORY. 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... | |
 | James Linen - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...VAUCANSON MOLIERE, ROUSSEAU, AND MALEBRANCHE BYRON AND BURNS. GIBBON says : "It was at Rome, 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... | |
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