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,... The works of lord Byron - Page 251by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1830Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...the mental feelings and throes ttf the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' 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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 600 pages
...the mental feelings and throes of the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' 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... | |
| 1819 - 630 pages
...the mental feelings and throes of the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' 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... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1821 - 572 pages
...his infancy, the hut of his mother, on the banks of the Danube." " I see before me the gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand his manly brow ; Consents to...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low : And from his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the sad gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first... | |
| English literature - 1833 - 554 pages
...DTINO GT.ADIATOR. " ' I lee before me the gladiator lie; And liia droop'd head sinks gradually low j And through his side, the last drops, ebbing slow...red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the first of athunder-shower-,— and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...listed spot? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. 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... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1821 - 582 pages
...is the most poetical, the statue itself, or your copy ? — . "I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand his manly brow ; Consents to death, but conquers agony, And hisdroop'd head sinks gradually low : And from his side the last drops, ebbing slaw, from the tad gash,... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - Poetry - 1822 - 108 pages
...statue before us. I look at the marble; I see you have faithfully exhibited the " Dying Gladiator:" " He leans upon his hand his manly brow, " Consents to death, but conquers agony." A fine idea, which the statue excites in the beholder, and which you have so powerfully expressed !... | |
| France - 1824 - 470 pages
...the best panegyric upon this wonderful statue thai I can give, I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand ; — his manly brow Consents...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low. and again, -His eyes Were with his heart, and that was faf away : He reck'd not of the life he lost, nor... | |
| 1824 - 232 pages
...of death, a circumstance which always draws forth sympatby from those most steeled against feeling. He leans upon his hand, his manly brow Consents to...conquers agony. And his droop'd head sinks gradually Ion, And through his side the last drops ebhing flow From the deep gash — fall heavy one by one Like... | |
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