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
| William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 464 pages
...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,... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...: 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...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 - 1840 - 718 pages
...p. 25-30). PAGE 14. — Je vois devant moi le gladiateur expirant... — Childe-Harold. rv, 191 -2. I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents tq death! but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the... | |
| 1840 - 326 pages
...swiftly by, And together we'll pass to our " mansion on high." KI A PIONEEK OF OHIO. He leans upon hit hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his drooped head sinks graduatly low— Ami tl,rough his tide the hlst drops, ebhing l!sw From the red gnsh, fell heavdy,... | |
| Celia Levetus, Marion Moss - 1840 - 966 pages
...arms of her faithful companion. CHAPTER VI. lie leans upon his hand his manly brow, Consents to dgath, but conquers agony; And his drooped head sinks gradually low, And through his sidu the last drops, ehbing slow. From the red gash fall heavy, one by one. Towards him they steer,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pages
...throes of the expiring swordsman. " I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand,—his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony,...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... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 348 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| George W. Burnap - 1841 - 288 pages
...ought to recollect that it has succeeded such scenes as that so admirably described by a 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... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1841 - 390 pages
...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... | |
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