 | John Blair Linn - 1804 - 192 페이지
...were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October,' 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." Gothic Darkness. While mournful wandering her eccentric way She lights the ruins with her trembling... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 페이지
...15th of October 17C4, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that...fall of the city first started to my mind. But my orignal plan was circumscribed to the dtcav of the city rather than of the empire : and, though my... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 페이지
...occasioned the most eminent geniuses to display their powers It was at Rome (says Gibbon) on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...decline and fall of the City first started to my mind. Father Mallebranche having compleated his studies in philosophy, and theology, without any other intention... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 페이지
...minute investigation." In another place he remarks, " It was at Rome, on the 15th of Octoher, 1764, as 1 sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." After devoting six weeks to the tour of Naples, he returned to his own country : the succeeding five... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 342 페이지
...the 15th of October, I'll!. as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bars-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter,...decline and fall of the City first started to my mind. Father Malebranche having completed his studies in philosophy and theology without any other intention... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 538 페이지
...occasioned the most eminent geniuses to display their powers. " It was at Rome," says Gibbon, " on the 15th of October, 1764), as I sat musing amidst the ruins...decline and fall of the City first started to my mind." Father Malebranche having completed his studies in philosophy and theology without any other intention... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 페이지
...who:» I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of 'Ytouer 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol,...my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of tbe city rather than of the empire : ard, though my reading and reflections began to point towards... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1831 - 394 페이지
...It was at Rome, on the 15th October, 1764, as I sate musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, whilst the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the...Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind." The Temple of Jupiter, to which the historian alludes, is the church of Aracaeli, where Marc Anthony... | |
 | 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 - 1834 - 600 페이지
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 590 페이지
...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... | |
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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. 
