 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1834 - 496 sidor
...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...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 sound which... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1834 - 392 sidor
...«till further to increase the public hilarity, 2000 gladiators were matched in mortal affray : — " and now The arena swims around him — he is gone,...the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won." " He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He reck'd... | |
 | Jules Michelet - 1834 - 268 sidor
...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...the red gash , fall heavy , one by one , Like the 6rst of a thunder-show er ; and now The arena swims around hirn — he is gone ,| Ere ceased the inhuman... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 sidor
...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...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 Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 sidor
...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...and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, CXL. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away : (') He... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 352 sidor
...gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ehhing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one hy one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now...the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CxLI. He heard it, hut he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; l He... | |
 | 1838 - 332 sidor
...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 inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, nnd that was far away; He reck'd not... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 sidor
...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...— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 sidor
...; 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...him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout that hail'd the wretch who won." Now, all this sculpture has imbodied in perpetual marble, and every... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1838 - 618 sidor
...Gladiator ; but then he described, not the marble in the Capitol, but the dying man in the ampbitheatre ; " And through his side the last drops ebbing slow From...arena swims around him, — he is gone Ere ceased th' inhuman shout that hailed the wretch that won. " He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyei Were... | |
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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,... 
