 | Philip Allott - 2002 - 448 páginas
...1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryars 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.' J. Murray (ed.), The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon (London, John Murray;... | |
 | Martin Carver - 2005 - 612 páginas
...1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol whilst the barefoot 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'.1 By the Temple of Jupiter', Gibbon meant the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 2003 - 390 páginas
...1754, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the CapitoI, while the barefoot 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.' This, as described by Edward Gibbon (1737-94) in his Autobiography, was... | |
 | Jeremy Black - 2003 - 280 páginas
...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.'" 11. A Caprice Landscape with Ruins, in the style of Bernardo Bellotto.... | |
 | 2003 - 664 páginas
...1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capítol, while 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." Gibbon returned to his father's house in June, 1765, and soon began to occupy... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 páginas
...1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefooted fryars 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.' Accident upon accident, yet something predestined too: 'my own religious... | |
 | María Eugenia Díaz Sánchez, Craig Douglas Dworkin - 2004 - 148 páginas
...1764, as I sat musing midst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefooted fryars 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" (p. 305), 60 Rossi, p. 21. 61 Pound's own view of the fragment might he deduced... | |
 | Rakesh V. Vohra - 2005 - 212 páginas
...writes, 'as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capital, 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'. 71 chapters, 2,136 paragraphs, a million and a half words, 8,000 footnotes... | |
 | William Simpson - 2005 - 368 páginas
...1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of that city first started to my mind.' Whether it be Charlemagne or Mary Queen of Scots, the bodyline... | |
 | Rosalie Hook - 2006 - 360 páginas
...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" (Gibbon 85). 52. santissimo Bamhino: Dickens irreverently called this sanctified... | |
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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. 
