When the light shines serene but doth not glare, 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 falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; And when... Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt - الصفحة 341بواسطة George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 367عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| John D. Rayner - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 212
...seemed that the world was coming to an end; who felt, in Byron's words: 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; and when Rome falls - the World' (Child Harold, IV, cxlv). But the world didn't fall. Instead, the spiritual vacuum was filled by Christianity,... | |
| Catharine Edwards - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 678
...merely translated a remark he found in the last chapter of Gibbon): 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, 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 - عدد الصفحات: 226
...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, the Phillies and... | |
| Hershel Parker - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 1072
...by quoting Cbilde Harold's Pilgrimage again (canto 4, stanza 145): "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; / And when Rome falls, the world." The most Byronic of American writers, the most profoundly pondering of American writers, was displaying... | |
| Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...thing in the morning, so shall I think of you." A prophecy of Byron: "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls, the world." Perseus was one of the god-like race of men. According to the fable, King Polydeuctes extorted from... | |
| Daniel Eddy - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 509
...its broken ruins, the oft-repeated prophecy will be remembered, — " While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; When falls the Coliseum, Rome 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... | |
| Department of English Washington University Robert Milder Professor, St Louis - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...his lecture with Byron's lines from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage — "'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; / When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; / And when Rome falls, the world'" (P 7^409; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage IV, 1297-99) — he invoked a monument at once synonymous with... | |
| Robert L. Bonn - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...following words (subsequently translated by the English poet, Lord Byron): While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall And when Rome falls — the world. In short, the Coliseum is a structure that has for centuries embodied the soul of a city that still... | |
| Hershel Parker - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...quotation from Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage that everyone knew: "While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; /When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; /And when Rome falls, the world." The statuary and architecture of Rome would outlast the institutions, inventions, and buildings of... | |
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