 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - Europe - 1868 - 270 pages
...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 - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...TAerevtzs 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...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 of many nations,... | |
 | Frances Mary Oxenham - 1868 - 404 pages
...meekly than such persons generally do ; but she was sincerely attached to her mistress. CHAPTER V. While stands 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 Home ecclesiastical,... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday. Canto iv. Stan2a 14i. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world.* Canto iv. Stama 145. * The exclamation of the pilgrims in the eighth century, as recorded by the Venerable... | |
 | Hans Christian Andersen - Danish fiction - 1869 - 364 pages
...thousand captive Jews labored at its erection. The ruins are now used for Christian worship. " Whilst stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls...Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls — the world." — BYRON. Author's Note. herds of tigers and hyenas; they sped close past the spot where I lay; I... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread. CXLV. # From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wal] In Saxon times, which we are wont to... | |
 | Appleton D. and co - 1870 - 788 pages
...and is well expressed in the quotation made use of by Byron : — "While stands the Coliseum, Home shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, 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... | |
 | Rev. A. J. O'Reilly - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 432 pages
...penned, than the sublime prophecy uttered by Venerable Bede towards the end of the seventh century — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world shall fall." Some doubt is expressed by modern historians as to the precise time when the immense fabric... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Architecture, Greek - 1871 - 330 pages
...Colyseus, stabit et Roma ; quando cadet Colyseus, cadet Roma ; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus." " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world. From our own land Thus speak the pilgrims o'er the mighty wall In Saxon times." Architecturally, the... | |
 | Frances Minto Elliot - Italy - 1871 - 344 pages
...prophecy recorded by the Venerable Bede, as repeated by the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims of his day : — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls — the world ! " Standing under the black shadows, cutting the ground with almost palpable lines, how clear and... | |
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World. 
