 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...see before me the gladiator lie : '} CA*»"~*-v ÍA** . He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow ï 1 b 5 &. i/W I W ) {#Ȝ i G' _ ɰh8& ~n I M6 \ ex...TF a Z]1Ya( Q( 9J S $§ Æ4Q@'_w G < clow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the firrt of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 572 pages
...merely recherche illustration suggested by thought or perception of analogies purely intellectual : — "And through his side the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower." Nothing can be more forced than the comparison of... | |
 | Education - 1911 - 696 pages
...Cambyses. I sit as in a theatre — the stage is time, the play is the world." — Alex. Smith. (b) "I see before me the gladiator lie; He leans upon...agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low." — Byron. 5. Both in prose and poetry, but more commonly in the latter. 6. Honor and shame from no... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...worms — on battle-plains or listed spot ? Both are but theatre« where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low— And through his aide the last drops, ebbing slow Prom the red gash,... | |
 | David B. Cohen - Medical - 1995 - 372 pages
...is again at his window, dying in the arms of Bankhead. Like an ancient Greek chorus, Byron speaks: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thundershower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone Ere... | |
 | John Varriano - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 304 pages
...surely the most memorable is that found in the fourth canto of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: I see before me the gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand - his manly brow Consents to his death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks low, And through his side the last drops,... | |
 | Bruce Redford - Travel - 1996 - 156 pages
...sees and heighten what he feels. He situates the Dying Gaul in particular within a rousing mini-epic: I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...1250 Of worms - on battle-plains or listed spot? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, 1255 And his droop'd head sinks gradually low And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From... | |
 | James A. W. Heffernan - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 261 pages
...indignation, unaccomplished rage; And still the cheated eye expects his fall. (Liberty 4. 152-62) Byron: I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone,... | |
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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, Like... 
