 | Robert Ginsberg - Philosophy - 2004 - 580 pages
...172). "A ruin amidst ruins" (st. 25, p. 32). "Chaos of ruins!" st. 80, p. 151). And, redoing a proverb, "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; Joachim Du Bellay, Anriquitez de Rome (orig. pub. 1558), trans, from French by Edmund Spenser, as Ruines... | |
 | Daniel Eddy - Travel - 2005 - 508 pages
...you enter it, and stand amid its broken ruins, the oft-repeated prophecy will be remembered, — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world." This vast pile, in its decaying grandeur, is an illustration of the present condition of Rome ; and... | |
 | Robert L. Bonn - Art - 2006 - 204 pages
...its significance in the following words (subsequently translated by the English poet, Lord Byron): While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand When falls...Rome shall fall And when Rome falls — the world. In short, the Coliseum is a structure that has for centuries embodied the soul of a city that still... | |
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World. 
