 | William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 348 oldal
...the 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...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,... | |
 | 1851 - 428 oldal
...Borne — Rome, the mistress of the world — and realize the noble description of a departed poet. 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 side tho last drops, ebbing s!ow From the red... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1841 - 390 oldal
...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...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the life drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1841 - 296 oldal
...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...ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, lake the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him—he is gone, Ere ceased the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 oldal
...are hut theatres, where the chief actors rot. -' T XL.™ I see before me the Gladiator lie: He Jeans hort space of one month, I have lost her who gave me i'íing, and most of those droopM head sinks gradually low — (I) The following afnnzn was written as the Kilitli, but afterwards... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 340 oldal
...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 Prom the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 oldal
...battle-plains or listed spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot, С XL. I sec before m« the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop 'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drop?, ebbing slow From the red... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - 1860 - 848 oldal
...shower — soon illustrating the truthful beauty of Lord Byron's description of the dying gladiator — "And his drooped head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing (low, From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the lir.it of a thunder shower." the heavy drops,... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - 382 oldal
...vanquished party was entirely rooted out, there would remain no subjects to oppress. CHAPTER IV. " 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 side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1843 - 616 oldal
...regarded as a copy. The right arm and the toes of both feet were admirably restored by Michael Angelo. " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand— his manly brow Consents to death, butconquers agouy, And his droop M head sinks gradually low— And through his aide the last drops,... | |
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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,... 
