 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1834 - 600 pages
...loth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.' — Miscellaneous Works, vol. ip 198. ' Perhaps' (observes M. Suard) ' it will not be difficult to... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli, Jsaac D'Jsraeli - English literature - 1835 - 524 pages
...Accident has frequently occasioned the most geniuses to display their powers. It was at Rome, says Gibbon, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst...Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and faU of the City first started to my mind. Father Malebranche having completed his studies in philosophy... | |
 | Biography - 1836 - 506 pages
...trace the links which connected what he had read with what he saw ; and it was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars...the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind. This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented him... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...says, at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 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...circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire : and, though my reading and reflections began to point towards that object, some years... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 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...circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire : apd, though my reading and reflections began to point towards that object, some years... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the loth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...the decline and fall of the city first started to rny mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire... | |
 | Biography - 1837 - 272 pages
...trace the links which connected what he had read with what he saw ; and it was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars...the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind. This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented him... | |
 | Biography - 1837 - 320 pages
...what he saw ; and it was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friar a were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that...the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind. This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented him... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...of the muse, in the choice of his subject and in the conduct of his work. " It was," says Gibbon, " as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind."* In the same manner, we have often thought, every work which we call a work of genius has been produced,... | |
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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. 
