 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1871 - 330 sidor
...Colyseus, stabit et Roma ; quando cadet Colyseus, cadet Roma ; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus." " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...when Rome falls, the world. From our own land Thus speak the pilgrims o'er the mighty wall In Saxon times." Architecturally, the Coliseum exhibits innumerable... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 sidor
...air The garland-forest, which the gray walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Cffisar's head ; he leaned against the armed — Ч is on their dust ye tread. "While stands the Coliseum, Romeshall stand ; When falls the Coliseum,... | |
 | Joseph Powell (of the Pontifical Zouaves.) - 1871 - 350 sidor
...air, The garland forest, which the grey walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Ctesar'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." CHILDE HAROLD. Near the Coliseum is the ruin of the Meta Sudans, ie dripping... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Frances Minto Elliot - 1871 - 344 sidor
...prophecy recorded by the Venerable Bede, as repeated by the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims of his day : — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls — the world ! " Standing under the black shadows, cutting the ground with almost palpable lines, how clear and... | |
 | 1920 - 770 sidor
...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... | |
 | John Bryan Ward-Perkins - 1994 - 542 sidor
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 sidor
...the air The garland-forest, which the gny walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Cesar'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, Borne shall stand; " When falls the... | |
 | John Varriano - 1995 - 304 sidor
...the air The garland-forest, which the grey 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.48 Night visits to the Colosseum thereafter became de rigueur for all... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 sidor
...Then 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...And when Rome falls - the World.' From our own land 1300 Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall In Saxon times, which we are wont to call Ancient;... | |
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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... 
