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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1820

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Oxford (England)

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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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Bell, Thomas

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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.