 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...  The Tale of Danish Heroism - Page 61by John Edwin Hilary Skinner - 1865 - 248 pagesFull 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
...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,...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... | |
 | 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
...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,...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... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...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,...conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, full heavy, one by one, Like... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...Theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie ; 55 He leans upon bis hand — his manly brow Consents to death , but conquers...agony , And his drooped head sinks gradually low-— And through his side the last drqps , ebbing slow From the red gash , fall heavy , one by one , Like... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...theatres where the chief actors rot CXL. I SPC before me the Gladiator lie: *9 He leans upon his hands — 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (5® 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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1821 - 572 pages
...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 death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low : And from his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the sad gash,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1821 - 582 pages
...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 - 260 pages
...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 !... | |
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