 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...Then in this magic circle raise the dead: Heroes have trod this spot - 'tis 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 1300 Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall In Saxon times, which we are wont... | |
 | John D. Rayner - Jewish sermons, English - 1998 - 212 pages
...those at the time to whom it seemed that the world was coming to an end; who felt, in Byron's words: 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Rome shall fall; and when Rome falls - the World' (Child Harold, IV, cxlv). But the world didn't fall. Instead, the spiritual vacuum was filled by Christianity,... | |
 | Catharine Edwards - History - 1999 - 316 pages
...best-known English version of a medieval saying attributed to the Venerable Bede: While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum. Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls - the World. (Chi/ile Humid' s Pilgrimage IV stanza 14, lines 1297-9) The Colosseum, though crumbling, still stands.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Poetry - 2000 - 678 pages
...cxlv, 1-3, pointing out that he merely translated a remark he found in the last chapter of Gibbon): 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When...Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.' The name may have come from its proximity to a colossal statue: hence somc modern writers prefer a... | |
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World. 
