 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1864 - 630 pages
...Gregorovius among others, ii. 211) to Bede, who is cited for the famous prophecy versified by Byron — ' While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall, And when Homo falls, the world.' But in truth the date of this prophecy appears to be quite uncertain, as the... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 606 pages
...Bede, who is cited for the famous prophecy versified by Byron — ' While stands the Coliseum, Bome shall stand When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall, And when Rome falls, the world.' But in truth the date of this prophecy appears to be quite uncertain, as the work in which it occurs... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - Rome (Italy) - 1864 - 268 pages
...Roma, cadet et mundus." Thus Englished by Byron : — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand I When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ! And when Rome falls — the world !" From this time forward exposed to tumult, battle, and changes of ownership, now occupied as a fortress... | |
 | Military art and science - 1865 - 618 pages
...indulged in no vainglorious prophecies or oracular declarations. RICHMOND AND THE END. BT THE EDITOR. "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand: When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world!" WITH similar boasting have the rebel leaders announced in time past to the world, that upon the impregnable... | |
 | 1865 - 614 pages
...name which his father gave him, — GRANT. RICHMOND AND THE END. • ВТ THE EDITOR. "While stnnds the Coliseum, Rome shall stand: When falls the Coliseum,...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world!" Wrm similar boasting have the rebel leaders announced in time past to the world, that upon the impregnable... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1865 - 428 pages
...the Cloaca. Rome was and is still a well drained city. COLOSSEUM. "While stands the Coliseum, Borne shall stand When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ! And when Rome falls, the world 1 "—Byron. the foot; 620 feet by 513 feet from wall to wall, and 1,820 feet rouud. The arena (so... | |
 | Asia - 1865 - 1024 pages
...stabit ct Roma; quando cadet Colt/sew, cadet Roma;" which the verse of Byron has rendered famous: — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand, When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall." This indeed is the oldest form of the Indian tradition that I have been able to trace. When the Muhammadan... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1865 - 434 pages
...called Acqua Argentina, runs into the Cloaca. Rome was and is still a well drained city. COLOSSEUM. 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand When falls the Coliseum, Rome •>..>!) fall ! And when Koine falls, the world I "—Byron. Colosseum, or Coliseum, or Flavian Amphitheatre... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1866 - 204 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; 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... | |
 | Horace, John Larkin Lincoln - 1866 - 718 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 Gibhon's Decline, ch. 71, n. 62. And the issue has more than... | |
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World. 
