 | English literature - 1833 - 554 pages
...DTINO GT.ADIATOR. " ' I lee before me the gladiator lie; And liia droop'd head sinks gradually low j And through his side, the last drops, ebbing slow...red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the first of athunder-shower-,— and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (5® 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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1821 - 572 pages
...infancy, the hut of his mother, on the banks of the Danube." " 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 from his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the sad gash,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1821 - 582 pages
...last drops, ebbing slow From the sad gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower; and now The arena swims around him. — He is gone Ere ceased the inhuman sound which hail'd the wretch who won. " He heard it, but he heeded not. His eyes Were with his heart,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 584 pages
...his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the sad gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first drops of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him. — He is gone Ere ceased the inhuman sound which hail'dthe wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not. His eyes Were with his heart,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 582 pages
...his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the sad gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first drops of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him. — He is gone Kre ceased the inhuman sound which hail'dthe wretch who won. , He heard it, but he heeded not. His... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Poetry - 1822 - 260 pages
...before us. I look at, the marble; I see you have faithfully exhibited the " Dying Gladiator :*' " He leans upon his hand his manly brow, " Consents to death, but conquers agony." A fine idea, which the statue excites in the beholder, and which you have so powerfully expressed !... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ehhing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one hy one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now...— he is gone, Ere ceased .the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CXLL He heard it, hut he heeded not— his eyes Were with his heart, and... | |
 | 1824 - 232 pages
...death, a circumstance which always draws forth sympatby from those most steeled against feeling. He leans upon his hand, his manly brow Consents to death but conquers agony. And his droop'd head sinks gradually Ion, And through his side the last drops ebhing flow From the deep gash... | |
 | France - 1824 - 470 pages
...the best panegyric upon this wonderful statue thai I can give, 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 again, -His eyes Were with his heart, and that was faf away :... | |
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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 drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one,... 
