 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread. CXLV. # From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wal] In Saxon times, which we are wont to... | |
 | Appleton D. and co - 1870 - 788 pages
...and is well expressed in the quotation made use of by Byron : — "While stands the Coliseum, Home shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls, the world." It is, by common consent, the grandest ruin of old Rome. The cause of its dilapidation cannot be better... | |
 | Rev. A. J. O'Reilly - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 432 pages
...penned, than the sublime prophecy uttered by Venerable Bede towards the end of the seventh century — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world shall fall." Some doubt is expressed by modern historians as to the precise time when the immense fabric... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Architecture, Greek - 1871 - 330 pages
...Colyseus, stabit et Roma ; quando cadet Colyseus, cadet Roma ; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus." " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world. From our own land Thus speak the pilgrims o'er the mighty wall In Saxon times." Architecturally, the... | |
 | Frances Minto Elliot - Italy - 1871 - 344 pages
...prophecy recorded by the Venerable Bede, as repeated by the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims of his day : — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls — the world ! " Standing under the black shadows, cutting the ground with almost palpable lines, how clear and... | |
 | 1871
...enthusiasts whom Disraeli's Theodora represents. The far-famed prophecy of the Pilgrim of the West, ' While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ! When...Rome shall fall ! And when Rome falls — the world ! is certainly nothing more than a poetical dream. The mutually-acting changes in climate, in the flow... | |
 | Archaeological Survey of India - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1871 - 570 pages
...stabit et Roma quando cadit Colyseus cadit 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... | |
 | Sir Alexander Cunningham - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1871 - 578 pages
...stabit et Roma quando cadit Colyseus cadit 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...Heroes have trod this spot, — Ч is on their dust ye tread. "While stands the Coliseum, Romeshall ur whistle you 'd make ! "or only consider, how silly 't would Ъе, To sit there and From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall In Saxon times, which we are wont to... | |
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World. 
