 | Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1839 - 590 pages
...CHAPTER IX. THE PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS AND PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANS. I see before me the gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to...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... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1848 - 550 pages
...Contents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low. And through his side his last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy...gone, 'Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won." CRILDE HAROLD. " The dying man cried, ' Hold, I've had my gruel. Oh ! for a glass... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - Italy - 1839 - 394 pages
...view of the Coliseum and the celebrated statue at Rome. — " 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... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 pages
...view of the Coliseum and the celebrated statue at Rome. — " 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... | |
 | John Relly Beard - Socialism and Christianity - 1839 - 260 pages
...conflicts with beasts of prey, as ' the playthings of a crowd.' I see before mo the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony ; And his dropp'd bead sinks gradually low — And through bis side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
 | James Orange - 1840 - 534 pages
...Dying Gladiator, contributed by JS Wright, Esq. il . "I see before me the gladiator lie, . ,He loans upon his hand, his manly brow Consents to death, but...low, And through his side the last drops ebbing slow . ' JFrom the red gash, fall heavy one by one, t,ike the first of a thunder shower: he is gone Ere... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...: 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...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 shout which... | |
 | E.C. and W. Osborne - Birmingham (England) - 1840 - 334 pages
...: 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...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 shout which... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...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 heavily, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him : he is... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - Art - 1840 - 64 pages
...source, when he remembered Byron's picture of the same victim ! " 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,... | |
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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,... 
