 | 536 sidor
...all Dght in the same dresses as before." British Encyclop. of W. Nicholton, THE DYING GLADIATOR. I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, hut conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low— And through his side the last drops,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1848 - 550 sidor
...BY CRAVEN. " I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leant upon his hand — hU manly brow Contents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low. And through his side his last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower... | |
 | E.C. and W. Osborne - 1840 - 334 sidor
...disgusting character. The demoralizing show of the ancients is thus described by our great modern poet : I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder- shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 sidor
...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 his...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - 1840 - 64 sidor
...sculptor and the poet to be of kindred source, when he remembered Byron's picture of the same victim ! " I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower; but now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
 | 1840 - 378 sidor
...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 his...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... | |
 | 1840 - 368 sidor
...sinks gradually low ; And through his side 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 gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not : his... | |
 | Jules Michelet - 1840 - 718 sidor
...25-30). PAGE 14. — Je vois devant moi le gladiateur expirant... — Childe-Harold. rv, 191 -2. I see before me the gladiator lie : 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... | |
 | James Orange - 1840 - 534 sidor
...Dying Gladiator, contributed by JS Wright, Esq. il . "I see before me the gladiator lie, . ,He loans 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 . ' JFrom the red... | |
 | 1840 - 326 sidor
...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... | |
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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 droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one,... 
