 | Peter Gay - 1995 - 596 стор.
...moment. "It was at Rome, on the i5th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid 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."3 For all his emotions,... | |
 | John Carswell - 1978 - 328 стор.
...even1 'It was at Rome, on the 1sth of October, 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' (Gibbon, Memoirs of... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 стор.
...... 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. He enlarged his scheme... | |
 | David Lowenthal - 1985 - 522 стор.
...crucial inspiration: '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, . . . the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.'350 The effigies... | |
 | Peter Brown - 1989 - 364 стор.
...and Fall. It was twelve years before that, in 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." In January 1976, with... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 стор.
...claimed to have conceived the idea of his history as he sat 'musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the temple of Jupiter', and his last chapter, which begins by quoting Poggio, is a meditation upon Rome's remains. More than... | |
 | Gerrit Walther - 1993 - 650 стор.
...lautet: „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" (S. 127). 17 Letters... | |
 | John Varriano - 1995 - 304 стор.
...that 'it was at Rome, on the 1jth 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 in my mind'/' Many are those of... | |
 | Luigi Barzini - 1996 - 388 стор.
...on the i5th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol,' remembered Gibbon, '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.' Only dead Italians... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 572 стор.
...EMPIRE 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. But my original plan... | |
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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. 
