 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...and the cell Haunted by holy love — the earliest oracle ! 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,... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1840 - 464 pages
...referring to Byron's noble description of the Dying Gladiator : 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,... | |
 | 1840 - 326 pages
...swiftly by, And together we'll pass to our " mansion on high." KI A PIONEEK OF OHIO. He leans upon hit hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his drooped head sinks graduatly low— Ami tl,rough his tide the hlst drops, ebhing l!sw From the red gnsh, fell heavdy,... | |
 | Jules Michelet - France - 1840 - 718 pages
...: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents tq death! but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From I lie red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1840 - 340 pages
...of them could intimate by any visible sign. But we must return to the swoon of the dying man : — " The arena swims around him, — he is gone. Ere ceased the inhuman shout that hail.d the wretch who won. " He heard it, and he heeded not,— his eyes Were with his heart,... | |
 | Celia Levetus, Marion Moss - Bible stories, English - 1840 - 966 pages
...arms of her faithful companion. CHAPTER VI. lie leans upon his hand his manly brow, Consents to dgath, but conquers agony; And his drooped head sinks gradually low, And through his sidu the last drops, ehbing slow. From the red gash fall heavy, one by one. Towards him they steer,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1841 - 464 pages
...throes of the expiring swordsman. " I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand,—his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony,...of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him—he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. " He heard it, but... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - Women - 1841 - 296 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...ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, lake the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him—he is gone, Ere ceased the... | |
 | George W. Burnap - Women - 1841 - 288 pages
...scenes as that so admirably described by a modern poet. "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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1841 - 390 pages
...Byron, has given a fine description of a dying gladiator. 5. " 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 life drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
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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,... 
