...convulsed features and stiffened limbs, but the mental feelings and throes of the expiring swordsman. ' 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...

...butbecausc 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. II see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but...

...Such were the bloody Circus1 genial laws, And the imperial pleasure. — Wherefore not? What matters where we fall, to fill the maws Of worms — on battle-plains...conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — (1) The following stanza was written as Ihe 136th,, but afterwards suppressed :— " If tu forgive...

...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...actors rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leaus upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head...

...with pleasure come ; For often does the tempest blow, And Robin still is safe at home ! THE GLADIATOR. 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...

...management of the finances entrusted ? CHAPTER IX. THE PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS AND PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANS. 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...

...management of the finances entrusted? CHAPTER IX. THE PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS AND PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANS. 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...

...for the greeting Of an enamour'd goddess, and the cell Haunted by holy love — the earliest oracle ! I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...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...

...horrors of Roman slavery, without referring to Byron's noble description of the Dying Gladiator : . I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...— And through his side the last drops ebbing slow Prom the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims...

...gladiators. — The English poet, Lord Byron, has given a fine description of a dying gladiator. 5. " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...head sinks gradually low — And through his side the life drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower...