 | 1862 - 1156 páginas
...(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 of the city 'first started to my mind." How differently would this have -been... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 páginas
...— "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 of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 páginas
...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 of the city first started to my mind." It is to be observed that he thought only... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 páginas
...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." Gay's " Beggars' Opera" originated in a... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 páginas
...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to... | |
 | Randolph Sailer - 1870 - 114 páginas
...with cadence and melody ; while Gibbon records for us that it was at Rome, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, and the bare-footed friars...were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that there flashed upon his mind for the first time the idea of the decline and fall, and undertaking which... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 páginas
...It was at Rome, on the I5th 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. But my original plan was circumscribed to... | |
 | 1871 - 550 páginas
...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 entered into my mind." "It was on the day, or rather night,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 páginas
...Rome," says he, "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. But my original plan was circumscribed to... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 páginas
...It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 17G4, as I sat musing amidst the ruina 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." Publication. — The first volume 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 bare-footed 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. 
