 | John Varriano - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 304 pages
...surely the most memorable is that found in the fourth canto of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: I see before me the gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand - his manly brow Consents to his death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks low, And through his side the last drops,... | |
 | David B. Cohen - Medical - 1995 - 372 pages
...is again at his window, dying in the arms of Bankhead. Like an ancient Greek chorus, Byron speaks: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony; And his drooped head sinks gradually low; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash,... | |
 | Bruce Redford - Travel - 1996 - 156 pages
...sees and heighten what he feels. He situates the Dying Gaul in particular within a rousing mini-epic: I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...1250 Of worms - on battle-plains or listed spot? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, 1255 And his droop'd head sinks gradually low And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From... | |
 | Frederick Burwick, Jürgen Klein - Art - 1996 - 576 pages
...pair of lovers; Raine glosses this set of figures as "an emblem of the source of ail life" (9). ebhing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower. (1256-8). Equally revealing is the order of the ekphrastic passages, which begin with... | |
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I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one,... 
