 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 364 pages
...magic cirele raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — -'tis on their dust ye tread. CXLV. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; " When...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... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - Europe - 1859 - 510 pages
...As 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 827 pages
...circle raise the dead : Heroes bave trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread. CXLV. •• Wbue tions will not be unwelcome; and th« traveller xvill l>e struck with the beauty of the pro ; - Ami when Rome falls — the World." From our own land Thin sjiake the pilgrims o'er this mighty... | |
 | Robert Spence Hardy - Buddha (The concept) - 1860 - 443 pages
...are living in other countries where Budhism is professed. The ancient Romans said of their city, " While stands the Coliseum Rome shall stand, When falls...Rome shall fall, And when Rome falls, the world." And the Budhists of other lands have a similar supposition relative to the Budhism of Ceylon. They... | |
 | Horace - 1860 - 664 pages
...duration of time itself. His creed on this head is well expressed by what Byron says of the Coliseum: " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ! When...shall fall ; And when Rome falls— the world."— Childe Harold, c. iv. With which compare Gibbon's Decline, ch. 71, n. 62. And the issue ha» more than... | |
 | Robert Spence Hardy - Buddha (The concept) - 1860 - 502 pages
...are living in other countries where Budhism is professed. The ancient Romans said of their city, " While stands the Coliseum Rome shall stand, When falls the Coliseum Rome shall fall, And when Rome fulls, the world." And the Budhists of other lands have a similar supposition relative to the Budhism... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1862 - 522 pages
...Colyseus, stahit et Roma : quando cadet Colyseus cadet Roma: quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus:"' — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand, When...shall fall, And when Rome falls, — the world."" Are we not justified in believing that our National Church is the Coliseum of England (happily less... | |
 | Dawson Massy - Emperors - 1863 - 524 pages
...rock-like cement, that the Romans believed it indestructible, and proudly proclaimed the prophecy — ' While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world.' Whilst actively engaged in the erection of this magnificent monument, which divides the admiration... | |
 | 1863 - 662 pages
...of the ruined city — is recorded in the well-known saying, preserved to us by the Venerable Bede: 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall ' stand ; when...Rome shall fall ; and when ' Rome falls, the world.' Doubtless there was no want of ciceroni, who would guide the pilgrims from church to church aud from... | |
 | 1864 - 464 pages
...in this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — *t is 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, Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall In Saxon times, which we are wont... | |
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