 | Hershel Parker - 2008 - 250 sidor
...Crystal Palace. He concluded with a quotation from Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage that everyone knew: "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; /When...Rome shall fall; /And when Rome falls, the world." The statuary and architecture of Rome would outlast the institutions, inventions, and buildings of... | |
 | Robert L. Bonn - 2006 - 204 sidor
...its significance in the following words (subsequently translated by the English poet, Lord Byron): While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand When falls...Rome shall fall And when Rome falls — the world. In short, the Coliseum is a structure that has for centuries embodied the soul of a city that still... | |
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But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there; When the stars twinkle through the loops of time... 
