 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 pages
...succession. And it was not until some years after, that we find this memorable record :—" It was at Borne, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst...of writing the Decline and Fall of the City first entered my mind." Happy infirmity of purpose, which had such a noble termination in the immortal labours... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 pages
...or enjoyed, before I could descend to a cool aud minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of...in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing this Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...on closing the work. GIBBON'S ACCOUNT OF THE COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION OF HIS GREAT WORK. IN Rome, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. * * * * It was on the... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...says, at Rome, on the 1 5th of October, 1 764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, and while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in...the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, that he wrote the last lines of the last page... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...says, at Rome, on the 1 5th of October, 1 764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, and while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in...the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, that he wrote the last lines of the last page... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1854 - 468 pages
...but, in this sketch, those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing...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... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...the arrangements of a barrack and the contents of a vast magazine. " It was at Rome," says Gibbon, " on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (then a church of the Franciscans), that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pages
...the arrangements of a barrack and the contents of a vast magazine. " It was at Rome," says Gibbon, " on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (then a church of the Franciscans), that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first... | |
 | William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 pages
...characterized by excellence of some kind or other. — (Beloe's Sexagenarian.) GIBBON'S ROMAN EMPIRE. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing...capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing lEABJfDfG AND LABOURS. vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of •writing the Decline and... | |
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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. 
