| Hershel Parker - 1996 - 1072 páginas
...their noble statuary." He ended by quoting Cbilde Harold's Pilgrimage again (canto 4, stanza 145): "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When...Rome shall fall; / And when Rome falls, the world." The most Byronic of American writers, the most profoundly pondering of American writers, was displaying... | |
| Hershel Parker - 1996 - 1070 páginas
...their noble statuary." He ended by quoting Childe Harold's Pilgrimage again (canto 4, stanza 145): "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When...Rome shall fall; / And when Rome falls, the world." The most Byronic of American writers, the most profoundly pondering of American writers, was displaying... | |
| Daniel Eddy - 2005 - 509 páginas
...As you enter it, and stand amid its broken ruins, the oft-repeated prophecy will be remembered,— " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When...shall fall; And when Rome falls, the world." This vast pile, in its decaying grandeur, is an illustration of the present condition of Rome; and one half... | |
| David Watkin - 2005 - 722 páginas
...recoverv of reverence which is now a cultural desideratum, we might reflect on the following lines: While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; When Rome falls the World. Thus the 19th-century poet Lord Byron, in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage translated... | |
| Department of English Washington University Robert Milder Professor, St Louis - 2005 - 312 páginas
...ideal inwardly. By closing his lecture with Byron's lines from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage—"'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When falls...Rome shall fall; / And when Rome falls, the world'" (PT409; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage IV, 1297-99)—he invoked a monument at once synonymous with Roman... | |
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