 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...  Osborne's London & Birmingham railway guide - Sida 146efter E.C. and W. Osborne - 1840 - 270 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 sidor
...features and stiffened limbs, but the mental feelings and throes of the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 sidor
...features and stiffened limbs, but the mental feelings and throes of the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' 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... | |
 | 1818 - 606 sidor
...features and stiffened limbs, but the mental feelings and throes of the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to de:ith, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 296 sidor
...spot? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (55) 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... | |
 | 1819 - 630 sidor
...features and stiffened limbs, but the mental feelings and throes of the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 sidor
...Of worms — on batllc-plains or listed spot? Both are but theatres 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 drooped head sinks gradually low — • And through his side the last drops, ebbing From the red gash,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1821 - 582 sidor
...merely as a work of Art, but enquiring which is the most poetical, the statue itself, or your copy ?— "I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...manly brow; Consents to death, but conquers agony, And from his side the last drops, ebbing sky, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low: from the tad gash,... | |
 | 1822 - 574 sidor
...actors rot." Looking down from above upon the arena, you feel the whole force of this painful picture: " 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,... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1822 - 258 sidor
...this in my vindication against the Quarterly. I must examine your copy again, and more minutely. " I see before me the Gladiator lie : " He leans upon his hand his manly brew , " Consents to death, but conquers agony, " And his droop'd head sinks gradually low : " And... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1822 - 108 sidor
...statue before us. I look at the marble; I see you have faithfully exhibited the " Dying Gladiator:" " He leans upon his hand his manly brow, " Consents to death, but conquers agony." A fine idea, which the statue excites in the beholder, and which you have so powerfully expressed !... | |
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