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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... "
The Dublin university magazine - Page 342
by University magazine - 1876
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Views and Reviews in American Literature: History and Fiction

William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 pages
...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...swims around him — 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,...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...: 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...around him — 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,...
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A Short History of Civilization

Lynn Thorndike - 1926 - 702 pages
...Gaul: 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...heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower. . . . The Laocoon group, representing the priest of Neptune and his two sons attacked by the two serpents...
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Englische Studien, Volume 32

Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Arthur Kölbing, Reinald Hoops, Albert Wagner - 1903 - 484 pages
...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...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 eyes \yere with his heart...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low— And through his aide the last drops, ebbing slow Prom the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first...swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shoot which hail' Л the wretch who won. CXLI. He heard it, bat he heeded not — his eyes Were with...
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Out of the Blue: Depression and Human Nature

David B. Cohen - 1995 - 372 pages
...speaks: 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...swims around him — he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. With his life's work, Castlereagh had won his place in history....
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A Literary Companion to Rome: Including Ten Walking Tours

John Varriano - 1995 - 304 pages
...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, ebbing slow...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 human shout which hailed...
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Venice & the Grand Tour

Bruce Redford - 1996 - 156 pages
...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...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 eyes Were with his heart,...
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Selected Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand - his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, 1255 And his droop'd head sinks gradually low And through his side...thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him - he is gone, 1260 Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CXLI He heard it, but he heeded...
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The Romantic Imagination: Literature and Art in England and Germany

Frederick Burwick, Jürgen Klein - 1996 - 576 pages
...pair of lovers; Raine glosses this set of figures as "an emblem of the source of ail life" (9). ebhing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower. (1256-8). Equally revealing is the order of the ekphrastic passages, which begin with Venus (433-68),...
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