 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 páginas
...circle raise the dead: Heroes have trod this spot—'tis on their dust ye tread. CXLV. "While"stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; " When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; " And when Rome falls—the World." From our own lar.d Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall ln Saxon times,... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1867 - 964 páginas
...could be cleared in five minutes. The architects of our public buildings might take a lesson from them. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ! When...falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ! And when Rome falls—the world. Such was the prophecy of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors 1100 years ago, and there are... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 páginas
...this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot—'tis on their dust ye tread. CXLV. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand,« " When...falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; '' And when Rome falls—the World." From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall In Saxon times,... | |
 | 1867 - 416 páginas
...could be cleared in five minutes. The architects of our public buildings might take a lesson from them. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand, When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall, And when Rome falls—the world! Of modern Rome, what shall I say? It is a city of fountains and dirt. In every square... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 806 páginas
...There was their Dacian mother,—he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday. Canto iv. St. 141. "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...shall fall ; And when Rome falls, — the World." 1 I Canto iv. St. 145. Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou ? Fond hope of many nations, art... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1868 - 270 páginas
...reading yesterday said." " Well, if you can quote it, do so, bub." " I will if you will be quiet: ' While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls, the world.' " " Bravo ! ". cried Minnie, clapping her hands. Tliey were now in the centre, and Mr. Percy called... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 794 páginas
...There was their Dacian mother,—he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday. Canto iv. St. 141. "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls,—the World." 1 Canto iv. St. 145. Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou ? Fond hope... | |
 | Frances Mary Oxenham - 1868 - 404 páginas
...such persons generally do; but she was sincerely attached to her mistress. CHAPTER V. While stauds the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Ro> le falls, the world. Childe Harold. FOE modern Rome Edith cared very little; for Rome ecclesiastical,... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 páginas
...was their Dacian mother—he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday. Canto iv. Stanza 141. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls, the world.* Canto iv. stanza 145. * The exclamation of the pilgrims in the eighth century, as recorded by the Venerable... | |
 | Appleton D. and co - 1870 - 788 páginas
...produced by massiveness and magnitude, and is well expressed in the quotation made use of by Byron:— "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls, the world." It is, by common consent, the grandest ruin of old Rome. The cause of its dilapidation cannot be better... | |
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of its founders, and the first mention of the name Coliseum occurs in the fragments of the Venerable Bede, who records the famous prophecy of the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims : 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand: When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall... 
