 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,...  The Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 54by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 827 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr - Art, Greek - 1855 - 532 pages
...leben, in beiten er bieé TOeifterwerf befungen unb аид1е(ф fo unübertreff^ gefфilbert £>at: 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 gash... | |
 | Octavian Blewitt - 1856 - 428 pages
...arm and the toes of both feet have been admirably restored. 202 § 72. MUSEUM OF THE CAPITOL. 203 VI see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his...head sinks gradually low— And through his side the 1;ы. drops, ebbing From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ;... | |
 | John Bonner - Childrens books - 1856 - 334 pages
...gladiator, and I dare say it does. Perhaps you have read the lines which Byron wrote when he saw it : I see before me the gladiator lie — He leans upon...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,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 376 pages
...Such were the bloody Circus' genial laws, And the imperial pleasure. — Wherefore not? What matters where we fall to fill the maws Of worms — on battle-plains...Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...swelling subterfuge of moral littleness, — yet rising to the rapt vision of the dying athlete : — "I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...Such were the bloody Circus' genial laws, And the imperial pleasure. — Wherefore not ? What matters where we fall, to fill the maws Of worms — on battle-plains...Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 pages
...Dying Gladiator there ' " ' Ah !' I interrupted, ' has not our Byron sung beautifully of him?— " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low." ' " 'You needn't quote any poet to me, Mr. Bull,' replied Apollo.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...gain, In exchange, a peasant's garden, And a conscience free from stain ! ' IB. .— THE GLADIATOR. I SEE before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...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,... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...little wit ! I bear it with me, Sir ; — he took so much delight in it." THE DYING GLADIATOR. BY BYRON. I SEE before me the gladiator lie ; He leans upon...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,... | |
 | Octavia Walton Le Vert - Europe - 1857 - 360 pages
...one has read those touching lines, so graphic and true a picture of this masterpiece of sculpture : "I see before me the Gladiator lie. He leans upon...— Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And from his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash,... | |
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