 | George W. Burnap - 1848 - 358 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...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 402 pages
...maws Of worms — on battle-plains or listed spot? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...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... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 906 pages
...maws Of worms, — on battle-plains or listed spot? Both are but theaters where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...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... | |
 | Lynn Thorndike - 1926 - 734 pages
...both his wife and himself that they may escape capture, or to the single figure of the Dying 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 the last drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 pages
...the maws Of worms, on battle plains or listed spot? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...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,... | |
 | Jacob Johan van Rennes - 1927 - 194 pages
...remembers, as he dies, the scenes of his infancy, the hut of his mother on the banks of the Danube: I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...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... | |
 | Jacob Johan van Rennes - 1927 - 186 pages
...remembers, as he dies, the scenes of his infancy, the hut of his mother on the banks of the Danube: I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...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... | |
 | 1928 - 1958 pages
...represents a past scene or event as one now passing before the eyes of the audience or the reader. J see before me the gladiator lie; He leans upon his...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low. — Byron. Synecdoche. — A figure in which a part is used to represent... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1927 - 632 pages
...commentatione dixi. Age, sis, mine de ratione videamus, Cf. Byron, Ckild Harold's P;iyrinayt, Canto I\*. ciL I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. 1 Cicero was killed in the proscription of 43 BC When the executioners overtook him he thrust his neck... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - 1928 - 582 pages
...Of 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...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first... | |
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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 droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one,... 
