 | Randal William McGavock - 1854 - 412 Seiten
...Coliseum, and other ancient remains—Drive on the Appian Way—Excursions in the neighborhood of Rome. " "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls, the world." BEFORE entering into the precincts of the " city of the dead," about which so many learned disquisitions... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 Seiten
...air The garland-forest, which the gray walla wear, Like laurels on the bald first Cœsar's head ; a When the light shines serene but doth not glare Then in this magic circle raise the dead : lerocs have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust yt tread. CXLV. " Wbile stands the Coliseum, Rome... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 Seiten
...curious prophecy recorded by the venerable Bade, 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 bright... | |
 | Edward Lance Tarbuck - 1855 - 94 Seiten
...stone, bidding fair to outlive the city around it, and to realize the prediction of the poet : — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls — the world." The other amphitheatres and theatres in Roine are thrown into the shade by the Coliseum. The theatre... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 376 Seiten
...Appendix, " Historical Notes," Nos. XXIX. XXX. 20* 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. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ;2 When falls the Coliseum,... | |
 | Ferdinand De Wilton Ward - 1856 - 344 Seiten
...remain unto all coming ages, a mighty witness to the Truth, of which it is itself a fitting emblem, " While stands the Coliseum Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall, And when Rome falls, the world." .• A cross now stands in the center of the arena, and from a rude pulpit underneath, a monk preaches... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday. Stanza 145. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world.* Stanza 177. O that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister, That I... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 Seiten
...the air The garland-forest, which the grey walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Csesar'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. BYRON. 284 DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. HARK ! forth from the... | |
 | Octavia Walton Le Vert - 1857 - 360 Seiten
...Maecenas. The walls of eome of the chambers still retain their stucco, and are exquisitely painted. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Rome shall fall : And when Rome falls, the world." This prediction, made by the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims in the eighth century, has proved but the coinage... | |
 | 1858 - 596 Seiten
...erection, by " the venerable Bede," who records the famous prophecy of the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims : " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls, the world I" The ruins that remain are of the grandest description, although it is ageeed, by those whose authority... | |
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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... 
