 | 1883 - 248 páginas
...was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1 764, 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 firbt started in my mind. But my original plan teas circumscribed... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 páginas
...It was at Rome, on the isth 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 1 From Gibbon's Memoir of My Life and Writings. '7 writing the decline and fall of the city first started... | |
 | 1883 - 836 páginas
...will be found in the interesting Mltnoirts de Bachaumont. musing amid 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 scene, the contrast of the old religion... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 páginas
...Rome," he says, " on the fifteenth of October, as I sat musing amid 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." Returning to England the following year,... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 páginas
..."It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amid 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." Here, then, was a definite centre, round... | |
 | London readers - 1884 - 216 páginas
...It was at Home, 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." In 1783, he returned once more to... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 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... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 448 páginas
...at Rome, on the Í5th of October, 1764, as I sat down 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." Returning from this tour in 1765, he remained... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 páginas
...Rome," he tells us, "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." The actual composition of the work, however,... | |
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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. 
