 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1704, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...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... | |
 | William Spalding - 1854 - 446 pages
...those quarters where he was inclined to lead us astray. His work was first conceived in Rome, " as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter : " and its prevalent tone might, with no very wide stretch of fancy, be supposed to retain symptoms... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1854 - 360 pages
...developes genius; but accident has much to do in directing it to suitable employments. Had not Gibbon sat " musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of the "decline and fall of the city" might not have " started in his mind." Many an author... | |
 | 1856 - 668 pages
...says Gibbon in the most interesting passage of his Memoirs, 'on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sate musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the...Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind.' The church of the Ara Celi, which now crowns the north-east height of the hill, was in . Gibbon's eyes,... | |
 | 1856 - 590 pages
...says Gibbon in the most interesting passage of his Memoirs, 'on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sate musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the...Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind.' The church of the Ara Celi, which now crowns the north-east height of the hill, was in Gibbon's eyes,... | |
 | 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...Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind.' The church of the Ara Celi, which now crowns the north-east height of the hill, was in Gibbon's eyes,... | |
 | 1857 - 456 pages
...precise words cannot be omitted in any sketch of Gibbon, however brief: — "It was at Rome," says he, "on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." M. Suard fancifully attributes to the combination of circumstances under which the conception of the... | |
 | 1857 - 480 pages
...cannot be omitted in any sketch of Gibbon, however brief:— " It was at Rome," says he, "on the loth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." M. Suard fancifully attributes to the combination of circumstances under which the conception of the... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1857 - 576 pages
...speculations as to the subsequent history stretch back to this as a starting-point. It was as Gibbon " sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while...the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind.* It is impossible to read a chapter of his history of Constantino without feeling that he... | |
 | 1857 - 476 pages
...Gibbon, however brief: — "It was at Rome," says he, "on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat rousing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." M. Suard fancifully attributes to the combination of circumstances under which the conception of the... | |
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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. 
