 | 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... | |
 | 1900 - 620 pages
...long as the pillar stood. Quamdiu itabit Colyseus stabit et Roma, quando cadit Colyseus cadit Roma — "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand, When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall. " When Delhi first became the capital of a Mohammedan Empire (1206) the founder Kutb-ud-liin (the Pole-star... | |
 | Protectionism - 1920 - 770 pages
...the country is saved. If we lose in Massachusetts the State is dishonored and the Nation imperilled. "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls — the world." MASSACHUSETTS THE BATTLE GROUND. By Hon. Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. The campaign of... | |
 | English periodicals - 1924 - 970 pages
...incessantly on the perils that are before this country ; and we are puzzled to know what he is referring to. When falls the Coliseum Rome shall fall, And when Rome falls — the World, wrote Byron. The Coliseum is in ruins, Rome has long since exchanged a temporal empire for a spiritual... | |
 | Leon Morris - Bible - 1987 - 260 pages
...with many modern critics that John is concerned only to denounce contemporary Rome. Byron could say. When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls - the World. It is something like this that John has in mind. He is catching up all that the prophets have said... | |
 | John Bryan Ward-Perkins - Architecture - 1994 - 542 pages
...majesty and enduring might of Rome. One recalls the words of the Venerable Bede, as translated by Byron: 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall: And when Rome taIls - the World.' For that very reason it is not an easy building to view dispassionately in its... | |
 | John Varriano - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 304 pages
...Venerable Bede, the so-called 'Father of English History'. They first appear in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls - the World.52 Like Twain forty years before him, James Joyce had a fine ear for the moronic repetitions... | |
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World. 
