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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: and walked to one of the empty arches, near which, as he observed,
an open carriage--one of the little Roman streetcabs--was stationed.
Then he passed in, among the cavernous shadows of the great structure,
and emerged upon the clear and silent arena. The place had never
seemed to him more impressive. One-half of the gigantic circus
was in deep shade, the other was sleeping in the luminous dusk.
As he stood there he began to murmur Byron's famous lines,
out of "Manfred," but before he had finished his quotation
he remembered that if nocturnal meditations in the Colosseum are
recommended by the poets, they are deprecated by the doctors.
The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere,
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