 | Sir Alexander Cunningham - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1871 - 614 pages
...about Rome and the Coliseum — " Quamdiu stabit Colyseus, stabit et Roma quando caclit Colyseus cadit Roma" which the verse of Byron has rendered famous. — " While stands the Coliseum, Eome shall stand, "When faUs the Coliseum, Rome shall fall." This, indeed, is the oldest form of the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 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 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...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 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 pages
...chieftain who died on that mountain, They'll weep for the maiden who sleeps in this wave. Loll*]* RooUt 25. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls — the world ! — BYRON. 26. Hear me, my mother Earth ! Behold it, Heaven !... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Voyages and travels - 1873 - 518 pages
..." Do you remember the famous prophecy of the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims? Byron puts it into verse :— ' While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world.' But go on, Fisher."] ' The outside of the edifice ' — I am still... | |
 | James De Mille - Adventure stories - 1873 - 366 pages
...from the far-distant isle of Angleland, whose impressions may be known from the memorable words, — "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world ! " During the middle ages the Coliseum underwent strange vicissitudes.... | |
 | Alexander Mackie - France - 1874 - 442 pages
...when, according to the Venerable Bede and Lord Byron, the Crusaders of the eighth century said — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand. When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls— the World." One shudders to think of the day when Julius Caesar sent 320 pairs... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday. . Canto iv. St. 141. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, — the World."1 Canto iv. St. 145. Scion of chiefs and monarcbs, where art... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...anticipates his guilt ; he enjoys his murderous thoughts, and coolly marks us out for bloodshed. CICEBO. 6. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Borne falls the world ! BYRON. 7. He loved his friends with such a warmth of heart, So clear... | |
 | Thomas Pope (canon of Castleknock.) - 1874 - 458 pages
...called that I know of, was that when Venerable Bede alludes to it in connexion with an old prophecy : " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ;. And when Rome falls, the world". The Coliseum at all times overwhelms the visitor with its imposing... | |
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While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World. 
