 | Robert Spence Hardy - Buddhism - 1860 - 506 pages
...are living in other countries where Budhism is professed. The ancient Romans said of their city, " While stands the Coliseum Rome shall stand, When falls the Coliseum Rome shall fall, And when Rome fulls, the world." And the Budhists of other lands have a similar supposition relative to the Budhism... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1862 - 522 pages
...Colyseus, stahit et Roma : quando cadet Colyseus cadet Roma: quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus:"' — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand, When...shall fall, And when Rome falls, — the world."" Are we not justified in believing that our National Church is the Coliseum of England (happily less... | |
 | Dawson Massy - Emperors - 1863 - 522 pages
...rock-like cement, that the Romans believed it indestructible, and proudly proclaimed the prophecy — ' While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world.' Whilst actively engaged in the erection of this magnificent monument, which divides the admiration... | |
 | 1863 - 662 pages
...of the ruined city — is recorded in the well-known saying, preserved to us by the Venerable Bede: 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall ' stand ; when...Rome shall fall ; and when ' Rome falls, the world.' Doubtless there was no want of ciceroni, who would guide the pilgrims from church to church aud from... | |
 | 1864 - 462 pages
...in this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — *t is on their dust ye tread. "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...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, which we are wont... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1864 - 630 pages
...Gregorovius among others, ii. 211) to Bede, who is cited for the famous prophecy versified by Byron — ' While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall, And when Homo falls, the world.' But in truth the date of this prophecy appears to be quite uncertain, as the... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 606 pages
...Bede, who is cited for the famous prophecy versified by Byron — ' While stands the Coliseum, Bome shall stand When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall, And when Rome falls, the world.' But in truth the date of this prophecy appears to be quite uncertain, as the work in which it occurs... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - Rome (Italy) - 1864 - 268 pages
...Roma, cadet et mundus." Thus Englished by Byron : — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand I When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ! And when Rome falls — the world !" From this time forward exposed to tumult, battle, and changes of ownership, now occupied as a fortress... | |
 | Military art and science - 1865 - 618 pages
...indulged in no vainglorious prophecies or oracular declarations. RICHMOND AND THE END. BT THE EDITOR. "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand: When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world!" WITH similar boasting have the rebel leaders announced in time past to the world, that upon the impregnable... | |
 | 1865 - 614 pages
...name which his father gave him, — GRANT. RICHMOND AND THE END. • ВТ THE EDITOR. "While stnnds the Coliseum, Rome shall stand: When falls the Coliseum,...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world!" Wrm similar boasting have the rebel leaders announced in time past to the world, that upon the impregnable... | |
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World. 
