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" While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World. "
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 620
edited by - 1925
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Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Italy, Volume 20

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...
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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 33

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...
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Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Italy, Volume 23

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...
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage, with a memoir by W. Spalding

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...
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The works of Horace: with English notes, for the use of schools and colleges

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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Triumphs of Ancient Architecture: Greece and Rome

William Henry Davenport Adams - Architecture, Greek - 1866 - 138 pages
...Colyseus, stabit et Roma; quando cadet Colyseus, cadet Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus." '' While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; Ami when Rome falls, the world. From our own land Thus speak the pilgrims o'er the mighty wall In Saxon...
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Poetical Works, Volume 4

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 402 pages
...this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread. CXLV. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; f " When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; " And when Rome falls — the World." From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall * Suetonius informs us that Julius...
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Select Academic Speaker: Containing a Large Number of New and Appropriate ...

Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...in this magic circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis 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 to...
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The Eagle: A Magazine, Volumes 5-6

1867 - 832 pages
...be cleared in five minutes. The architects of our public buildings might take a lesson, from them. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand, When...Rome shall fall, And when Rome falls — the world ! * Such was the prophecy of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, eleven hundred years ago, and there are no...
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The Southern Review, Volumes 12-13

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1873 - 526 pages
...duration of the world by the duration of the Roman Empire, then apparently crumbling at its base: . When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ! And when Rome falls — the world. 10 14:6 Armageddon. [January, When the Roman Empire was tottering to its fall under the assaults of...
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