 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 590 pages
...management of the finances entrusted? CHAPTER IX. THE PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS AND PRIVATE LIFE OF THE 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... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 394 pages
...allusion to the subject, suggested, by the view of the Coliseum and the celebrated statue at Rome. — " 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... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 pages
...allusion to the subject, suggested by the view of the Coliseum and the celebrated statue at Rome. — " 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 — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1839 - 260 pages
...each by the other, in conflicts with beasts of prey, as ' the playthings of a crowd.' I see before mo the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony ; And his dropp'd bead sinks gradually low — And through bis side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
 | 536 pages
...They 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 pages
...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 ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, 'Ere ceased... | |
 | James Orange - 1840 - 534 pages
...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...low, And through his side the last drops ebbing slow . ' JFrom the red gash, fall heavy one by one, t,ike the first of a thunder shower: he is gone Ere... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - 1840 - 64 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pages
...for 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...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,... | |
 | E.C. and W. Osborne - 1840 - 334 pages
...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...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... | |
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