 | Leon Morris - Bible - 1987 - 260 pages
...with many modern critics that John is concerned only to denounce contemporary Rome. Byron could say. When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls - the World. It is something like this that John has in mind. He is catching up all that the prophets have said... | |
 | John Bryan Ward-Perkins - Architecture - 1994 - 542 pages
...majesty and enduring might of Rome. One recalls the words of the Venerable Bede, as translated by Byron: 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall: And when Rome taIls - the World.' For that very reason it is not an easy building to view dispassionately in its... | |
 | John Varriano - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 304 pages
...Venerable Bede, the so-called 'Father of English History'. They first appear in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls - the World.52 Like Twain forty years before him, James Joyce had a fine ear for the moronic repetitions... | |
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World. 
