Edward Gibbon Quote

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.


The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 (ed. 1840)


It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.