 | 1867 - 848 páginas
...could be cleared in five minutes. The architects of our public buildings might take a lesson from them. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand, When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall, And when Rome falls—the world! Of modern Rome, what shall I say ? It is a city of fountains and dirt. In every... | |
 | 1926 - 780 páginas
...this magic circle raise the dead: Heroes have trod this spot — 't is on their dust ye tread. CXLV 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls — the World.' From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall In Saxon times, which we are wont to... | |
 | Beatrice Adelaide Lees - 1915 - 622 páginas
...Forum, the vast Coliseum, of which Anglo-Saxon pilgrims of the seventh century repeated the prophecy: "When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall, and when Rome falls, the world." These things were of the past: of the present were the shrines of St. Peter and St. Paid, newly decorated... | |
 | John Bryan Ward-Perkins - 1994 - 542 páginas
...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...Rome shall fall: And when Rome falls — the World.' For that very reason it is not an easy building to view dispassionately in its contemporary context.... | |
 | John Varriano - 1995 - 304 páginas
...Venerable Bede, the so-called 'Father of English History'. They first appear in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls - the World. 52 Like Twain forty years before him, James Joyce had a fine ear for the moronic repetitions of Byronic... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 páginas
...in 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...Rome shall fall; 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... | |
 | John D. Rayner - 1998 - 212 páginas
...those at the time to whom it seemed that the world was coming to an end; who felt, in Byron's words: 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Rome shall fall; and when Rome falls - the World' (ChildHarold, IV, cxlv). But the world didn't fall. Instead, the spiritual vacuum was filled by Christianity,... | |
 | Catharine Edwards - 1999 - 316 páginas
...best-known English version of a medieval saying attributed to the Venerable Bede: While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum. Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls - the World. (Chi/ile Humid's Pilgrimage IV stanza 14, lines 1297-9) The Colosseum, though crumbling, still stands.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 678 páginas
...cxlv, 1-3, pointing out that he merely translated a remark he found in the last chapter of Gibbon): 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When...Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.' The name may have come from its proximity to a colossal statue: hence somc modern writers prefer a... | |
 | David Zang - 2001 - 226 páginas
...entirely dislikes Pennsylvania." 7 CHAPTER FOUR When Falls the Coliseum: New Perceptions of the Physical While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls—the world. —Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, Stanza 145 On October 1, 1970,... | |
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of its founders, and the first mention of the name Coliseum occurs in the fragments of the Venerable Bede, who records the famous prophecy of the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims : 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand: When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall... 
