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... New National Fifth Reader - Page 379by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 pages
...very statue is turned into verse, which seems almost to make it visible : — THE DYING GLADIATOR. " I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon...hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers aeon? ; And his droop'd head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow... | |
| 1833 - 370 pages
...gladiator which he introduces into his Childe Harold, and with which we will close this article. " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, bat conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops,... | |
| James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pages
...very statue is turned into verse, which seems almost to make it visible : — THE DYING GLADIATOB. "I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand ; his manljt brow Consents to death, but conquers agony ; And his droop'd head sinks gradually low ; And... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1834 - 496 pages
...was the management of the finances entrusted ? THE PUBLIC AMUSKMENT8 AND PRIVATE LIFE OF TH1 ROMANS. I see before me the gladiator lie ; He leans upon...ebbing slow From the red 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... | |
| Jules Michelet - 1834 - 268 pages
...moi le gladiateur expirant. . . — Childe-Harold. iv, 191-2. I see before me the gkdiator lie : j 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...convulsed features and stiffened limbs, but the mental feelings and throes of the expiring swordsman. ' I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...ebbing slow From the red 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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...Of worms — on battle-plains or listed spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. II see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his...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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 pages
...worms — on battle-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 droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...worms — on battle-plains or listed spot? Both are but theatres, where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — (1) The following stanza was written as Ihe 136th,, but afterwards... | |
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