 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.  The Universal Magazine - Página 321796Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 636 páginas
...1764, 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 Decline and Fall came out in 1776.... | |
 | EVERT A. DUYCKINCK - 1872
...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 the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 567 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. But my original plan waa circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1873
...1764, as i sat musing among 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. 3. John gilpin was a citizen, of credit and renown. a trainband captain eke... | |
 | 1873
...was 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 " first started to my mind." — Gibbon's Memoirs. The two first volumes of his ' Monks of the West... | |
 | 1873
...was 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 " first started to my mind.' — G:bboiis Memoirs. The two first volumes of his ' Monks of the West... | |
 | 1875 - 618 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." Father Malebranche, having completed his studies in philosophy and theology,... | |
 | Hiram Corson - 1875 - 432 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 original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire : and, though my... | |
 | English authors - 1876
...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
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