 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.  Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life - Стр. 366авторы: James Boswell - 1887Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - Страниц: 608
...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 of the city first started to my mind." But so gigantic a task was not to be executed, or even begun, without immense preparatory labour, and... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - Страниц: 478
...friars were singing vespers in the temple of 286 OUTLINES or GENERAL LITERATURE. [CHAP. xv. Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to ray mind." But so gigantic a task was not to be executed, or even begun, without immense preparatory... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1850 - Страниц: 750
...as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind." In front of the church, facing the Campidoglio, are the 124 steps of Grecian marble said... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - Страниц: 572
...after his arrival there, on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing on the ruins of the capital, the idea of writing the " Decline and Fall of the city," first started to his mind. His original plan, he adds, was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the... | |
 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - Страниц: 162
...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 entered my mind." Happy infirmity of purpose, which had such a noble termination in the immortal labours... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - Страниц: 422
...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 my mind. * * * * It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - Страниц: 616
...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 my mind.' Many years, however, elapsed before ho carried his intentions into effect. On his return to England,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - Страниц: 572
...ruins of the Capitol, and 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 his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, that he wrote the last lines of the last page... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - Страниц: 410
...ruins of the Capitol, and 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 his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, that he wrote the last lines of the last page... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - Страниц: 426
...ruins of the Capitol, and 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 his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, that he wrote the last lines of the last page... | |
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