 | Dawson Massy - 1863 - 522 sidor
...rock-like cement, that the Romans believed it indestructible, and proudly proclaimed the prophecy — ' While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world.' Whilst actively engaged in the erection of this magnificent monument, which divides the admiration... | |
 | 1864 - 462 sidor
...the air The garland-forest, which the gray walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Caesar's head; When the light shines serene but doth not glare, Then...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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 sidor
...the air The garland-forest, which the gray walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Cresar's head ; When the light shines serene but doth not glare, Then...circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread. 277. THE OCEAN. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is... | |
 | 1865 - 618 sidor
...indulged in no vainglorious prophecies or oracular declarations. RICHMOND AND THE END. BT THE EDITOR. "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand: When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world!" WITH similar boasting have the rebel leaders announced in time past to the world, that upon the impregnable... | |
 | 1865 - 614 sidor
...name which his father gave him, — GRANT. RICHMOND AND THE END. • ВТ THE EDITOR. "While stnnds the Coliseum, Rome shall stand: When falls the Coliseum,...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world!" Wrm similar boasting have the rebel leaders announced in time past to the world, that upon the impregnable... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 402 sidor
...air The garland forest, which the gray walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Cassar's head ; * When the light shines serene but doth not glare, Then...circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread. CXLV. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; f " When falls... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 sidor
...the air The garland-forest, which the gray walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Caesar's head ; When the light shines serene but doth not glare, Then...circle raise the dead : Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread. cxr.V. "While" stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; " When falls... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1866 - 204 sidor
...the air The garland-forest which the gray walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Caesar's head ; When the light shines serene, but doth not glare,...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,... | |
 | Horace, John Larkin Lincoln - 1866 - 718 sidor
...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... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 750 sidor
...begins to climb The topmost crag, and gently pauses there When the low night breeze waves iilong the air When the light shines serene but doth not glare, Then, in this magic circle, raise the dead. The passage recurred to my mind with an instinctive regret that my companion did not understand English.... | |
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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... 
