 | 1883 - 498 pages
...on the Coliseum, substituting Carnivele, or Horse Races, for Coliseum. " While stands the Colisenm Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world." But the Prefect stood firm, and Rome still stands; and even the Carnivale, after the first few days,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread. CXLV. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; (')...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 to... | |
 | Christian literature, American - 1844 - 398 pages
...Quando cadet I'nly • • "-. Cadet Roma, Quondo cadet Roma, cadet ct mundus. BSDA, IN EXCEEPTBS, See. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world . SUCH is said to have been the involuntary exclamation of the pilgrims of the North, when, in the... | |
 | Theology - 1845 - 818 pages
...stupendous columns, its vast capaciousness, the grandeur of whose ruins even now astonish the beholder. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand, When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls — the World !" The feelings of mankind are well expressed in this metrical Version of an old prophecy. The Coliseum... | |
 | Religion - 1845 - 816 pages
...stupendous columns, its vast capaciousness, the grandeur of whose ruins even now astonish the beholder. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand, When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls— the World !" The feelings of mankind are well expressed in this metrical version of an old prophecy. The Coliseum... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1845 - 222 pages
..."VI ' <•• l , l ' -M rt 'i ,i" С "'.nu '; ; . лi> •"ri) I Лi" > M ' '' l> RUINS OF ROME. " 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 to... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1845 - 830 pages
...stupendous columns, its vast capaciousness, the grandeur of whose ruins even now astonish the beholder. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand, When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls—the World!" The feelings of mankind are well expressed in this metrical version of an old prophecy.... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - Rome (Italy) - 1845 - 230 pages
...the seven-hilled Queen of the world, uttered the famous prophecy recorded by the venerable Bede : " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall j And when Rome falls, the world !" The later Popes seem to have felt that their own fate was intimately... | |
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World. 
