 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.  University of California Publications in History - Stran 2001916Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 478 strani
...the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." That was in 1764, — a hundred years ago: but a hundred years are as nothing when you stand... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 strani
...could descend to a cool and minute investigation. ... 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... | |
 | David Lowenthal - 1985 - 522 strani
...stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell', provided his crucial inspiration: '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... | |
 | Peter Brown - 1989 - 364 strani
...Gibbon published the f1rst volume of his Decline and Fall. It was twelve years before that, in 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... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1991 - 234 strani
...five hundred churches ringing in unison when a new pope was declared; Gibbon's history that began when "the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started in my mind." "Come to Rome," Shelley said, whose ashes are buried in the Protestant Cemetery. Halfway... | |
 | Gerrit Walther - 1993 - 650 strani
...berühmte Stelle aus seiner Autobiographie lautet: „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... | |
 | John Varriano - 1995 - 304 strani
...(1796), the great historian matter-offactly relates that 'it was at Rome, on the 1jth 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... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1995 - 628 strani
...more fascinating. Probably it was more vital in May, 1860, than it had been in October, 1764, when the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first ROME started to the mind of Gibbon, 'in the close of the evening, as I sat musing in the Church of... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 578 strani
...Edward Gibbon THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 strani
...'It was at Rome,' he states in a famous passage in his Memoirs, 'on the fifteenth 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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