Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. VI. London, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies […], 1820

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  •    1. This great, this wonder-
       2. ful saint is surely an ob-
       3. ject to be singled out in
       4. ecclesiastical history for

       5. admiration and study. He
       6. has been, perhaps, the only
       7. man who has dared to be
       8. really alone.

       9.   There is no exaggeration
       10. in the words “Simeon was
       11. “repeatedly saved from pious

       12. “suicide”. To make the sense
       13. clearer the word unintentional
       14. should be added. St. Blasius

       15. once saved Simeon when he
       16. was on the point of expiring
       17. from suffering.
       18.   The height of the column

       19. is correctly given by Gibbon.
       20. There is an extant passage of

       21. Evagrius in which it is

  •    1. stated that Simeon Stylites
       2. built a small house, or rather
       3. a small room on the top of
       4. the column. But a modern

       5. German savant, Gregorovius,
       6. is of opinion that Simeon
       7. must have used the room
       8. only during the first years

       9. till he got used to the verti-
       10. ginous height, and must after-
       11. wards have pulled it down.
       12.   The glory of Simeon

       13. filled and astounded the
       14. earth. Innumerable pilgrims

       15. crowded round his column.
       16. Poeple came from the farthest

       17. West and from the farthest
       18. East, from Britain and from
       19. India, to gaze on the unique
       20. sight – on this candle of

       21. faith (such is the magnificent

  •    1. language of the historian Theo-
       2. doret) set up and lit on a
       3. lofty chandelier.
       4.   I have met with only

       5. one poem on Simeon Stylites,
       6. but it is in no way worthy

       7. of the subject.
       8.   The poem of Tennyson,
       9. though it contains some

       10. well-made verses, fails in
       11. tone. Its great defect lies
       12. in its form of a monologue.

       13. The complaints of Simeon,
       14. his eagerness for the “meed
       15. “of saints, the white robe

       16. “and the palm”, his dubious
       17. humility, his latent vanity,
       18. are not objectionable in

       19. themselves and may be
       20. were necessary to the poem,
       21. but they have been handled

  •    1. in a common, almost a vulgar

       2. manner. It was a very diffi-
       3. cult task – a task reserved,

       4. perhaps, for some mighty King
       5. of art – to find fitting language

       6. for so great a saint, so won-
       7. derful a man. –

       8.                 C.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Gibbon, Edward
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T. Cadell and W. Davies, F. C. and J. Rivington, J. Cuthell, J. Nunn, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, John Richardson, J. M. Richardson, Jeffery and Son, J. and A. Arch, J. and W. Clarke, Black and Co, S. Bagster, W. Stewart, Hatchard and Son, W. Ginger, J. Mawman, R. Scholey, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, J. Asperne, T. Hamilton, J. Bohn, J. Ebers, R. Saunders, G. Greenland, Olge and Co, G. and W. B. Whittaker, Taylor and Hessey, Simpkin and Marshall, Rodwell and Martin, C. Taylor, Isaac Sheldon, W. Wood, Lloyd and Son, G. Mackie and J. Parker, Fairbairn and Anderson

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22 x 13.5 cm; 4 s.p. + X p. + 420 p. + 4 s.p. + 1 insert, label with the name of the former owner on verso of the front cover: “Mr. Thomas Bell”. On l. 1 bookplate CPC on recto, p. [Ι] title page, p. [ΙΙ] typographical data and p. [III]-VIII “Contents”. Pencil marks on p. 120, 154, 172, 176, 258, 263, 265, 284, 320, 331, 343. C. P. Cavafy’s handwritten note in black ink inserted between p. 264-265 regarding traits of the text, where he signs as “C.”. P. 420 colophon.


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The inserts and handwritten notes found in Edward Gibbon’s volumes were transcribed for the first time by Diana Haas. See Diana Haas, “Cavafy’s reading notes on Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall”, Folia Neohellenica 4 (1982), 25-96.


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