 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 pages
...one heart, as it must move all who look upon it now, a ruin, — God be thanked : a ruin ! " Dickens. Arches on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting...all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands. Byron* — Vpon such a night I stood within the Coliseum's wall, Midst tlie chief relics of almighty... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 602 pages
...one heart, ne it must move all who look upon it now, a ruin, — God bo thanked : u ruin ! M Dicktnn, Arches on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting...line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome, Her Cuiueum Blandí. COL COL — Г рол such a nlf ht I stood within the Cohseum'i well, Micbt the chief... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 610 pages
...eoueh the blind. CXXvIII. Arehes on arehes ! as it were that Rome, Colleeting the ehief trophies ol her line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands ; the moonbeams shine, \s 'twere its natural torehes, for divine Should be the light whieh streams here, to illume This long-explored... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1882 - 608 pages
...one heart, as it must move all who look upon it now, a ruin, — God be thanked : a ruin!" Dickens. Arches on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies or her line. Would htilld up all her triumphs in one dome. Her Calueiun stands. Byron. — T'pon such... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 pages
...brightly on the unprepared mind, The beam pours in, for time and skill will couch the MiniI. CXXVIII. 't were its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long-explored... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 308 pages
...cxxxvm.) CXXVIII Arches on arches1! as it were thai Rome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line2, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome — Her Coliseum stands; the moonbeams shine As 't were its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long-explored... | |
 | Boy - 1884 - 156 pages
...savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep more than did laugh at it. THE COLISEUM AT ROME. A RCHES on arches ! as it were that Rome, £\. Collecting...Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long explored but still exhaustless mine Of contemplation ; and the azure gloom Of an Italian night,... | |
 | London readers - 1884 - 216 pages
...is a Tear. Byron. sym'-path-ies | ro-man'-tic | van'-i-ty XXX. THE COLISEUM.* 1. ARCHES on aretes ! as it were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies*...line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum1 stands : the moonbeams shine As 'twere its natural torches, for divine Should be the light... | |
 | Friedrich Lohr, Edgar Solomon Shumway - 1885 - 114 pages
...the structure. It rises up before us with its gigantic masonry like a city on the slope of a hill. " Arches on arches! as it were that Rome, Collecting...all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands; ******* A ruin—yet that ruin ! From its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared ; Yet... | |
 | Fr Lohr - 1885 - 104 pages
...the structure. It rises up before us with its gigantic masonry like a city on the slope of a hill. " Arches on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting...all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands ; ******* A ruin — yet that ruin ! From its mass Walls, palaces, half-cities, have been reared ;... | |
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Arches on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands... 
