 | James De Mille - 1873 - 366 páginas
...from the far-distant isle of Angleland, whose impressions may be known from the memorable words, — “While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls, the world!'¿ During the middle ages the Coliseum underwent strange vicissitudes. Rome was a lawless city then, given... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 páginas
...this magic circle raise the dead ; Heroes have trod this spot, — 't is on their dust ye tread. ' ' t thou despise the earth where cares abound ! Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall In Saxon times, which we are wont to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 898 páginas
...this magic circle raise the dead : Berces have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread. CXLV. " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; < " When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall j " And when Rome falls — the World." From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1916 - 320 páginas
...in this magic circle raise the dead: Heroes have trod this spot — 't is on their dust ye tread. " 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... | |
 | Thomas O'Hagan - 1916 - 188 páginas
...fifth century. God's finger has written across the face of the Eternal City. Well might Byron write: "While stands the Coliseum Rome shall stand, When...Rome shall fall, And when Rome falls— the world I" I remember well the evening that I arrived in Roma Immortalis. It was Saturday, August 31, 1900.... | |
 | Reginald John Campbell - 1916 - 324 páginas
...a few generations civilisation lay under one sceptre and centred in one city. The proud boast — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When...Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls — the World," seemed safe enough when it was first uttered. The Emperors were entitled " lord of the world." So potent... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 páginas
...this magic circle raise the dead: Heroes have trod this spot—'tis on their dust ye tread. 1296 " artin falls—the World." From our own land Thus spake the pilgrims o'er this mighty wall 1300 In Saxon times,... | |
 | Edward Adolf Sonnenschein - 1917 - 450 páginas
...Since these men could not be convinced it was determined that they should be persecuted. MACAULAY. 18. While stands the Coliseum Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls—the world. BYRON, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. 19. I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 páginas
...mother: he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday! Stanza 141. “While stands the Coliseumn, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls — the ¿ Bta¿ 145 1 See Wordsworth, page 4¿&. I Literally the exclamation of the pilgrims in the eighth... | |
 | John Reuben Thompson - 1920 - 322 páginas
...PROPOSED SALE OP THE NATURAL BRIDGE, P. 61 10 By JRT: See Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. While stands the Coliseum Rome shall stand; When falls...Coliseum Rome shall fall. And when Rome falls, the world!—Childe Harold. To INTEMPERANCE, P. 68 11 By JRT: Attila, our readers are well aware, was thus... | |
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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... 
