As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand ; when the Coliseum falls, Rome will fall; when Rome falls, the world will fall. Pompeii - Pągina 284per William Clarke (architect.) - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1899 - 446 pągines
...proverbial expression, which is recorded in the eighth century, in the fragments of the venerable Bede : "As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand ; when...will fall; when Rome falls, the world will fall." In the modern system of war a situation commanded by the three hills would not be chosen for a fortress... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 660 pągines
...expression, which is recorded in the eighth century, in the fragments of the venerable Bede : " As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand ; when...falls, Rome will fall ; when Rome falls, the world will fall."99 In the modern system of war, a situation commanded by three hills would. not be chosen for... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 426 pągines
...proverbial expression, which is recorded in the eighth century, in the fragments of the venerable Bede: " As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand ; when...will fall; when Rome falls, the world will fall." In the modern system of war a situation commanded by the three hills would not be chosen for a fortress... | |
| Esther Singleton - 1903 - 450 pągines
...proverbial expression, which is recorded in the Eighth Century, in the fragments of the venerable Bede: " As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when...will fall; when Rome falls, the world will fall." In the modern system of war, a situation commanded by three hills would not be chosen for a fortress... | |
| Albert Stratford George Canning - 1907 - 306 pągines
...proverbial expression, which is recorded in the eighth century in the fragments of The Venerable Bede.s ' As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand ; when...will fall ; when Rome falls, the world will fall.' " On the fearful human combats which formed a Roman public amusement in this terrible arena, Byron... | |
| John Lawson Stoddard - 1913 - 494 pągines
...expression, which is recorded in the eighth century, in the fragments of the Venerable Bede : " As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand ; when...will fall : when Rome falls, the world will fall." In the modern system of war, a situation commanded by three hills would not be chosen for a fortress;... | |
| Mary Shelley - 1996 - 476 pągines
...describes the Coliseum in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, adapting Edward Gibbon's quotation from Bede: "As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when...Rome will fall; when Rome falls, the world will fall" (Dicline and Fall, chapter 71; Childe Harold 4.145.1297-99). 106 Italian mesero of misere, a woman's... | |
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