And through his side the 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 the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it,... The London Quarterly Review - Page 2261819Full view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1834 - 496 pages
...arena swims around him - he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman sound which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not, his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost nor prizi-, But where his rudo hut by the Danube lay, There were his... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. " He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were...There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, ButcherM to make a Roman holiday, — All this rush'd with his blood, — shall he expire Ar.d unavenged... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, CXL. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with...Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday (2) — All this rush'd with his> blood — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 pages
...swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which I mi I'd the wretch who won. ex LI. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with...lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, 1 Whether the wonderful statue which suggested this image be a laquearian gladiator, which, in spite... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; (2) He reck'd not of ihe life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by...There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Rutcher'd to make a Roman holiday — (3) All this rush'd with his blood — Shall he expire, And unavenged?... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CXLL He heard it, but he heeded not— his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; (2) île reck'd not uf the life he lost nor prize, Itut where his rude hut by the Danube lay; There... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 352 pages
...— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CxLI. He heard it, hut he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; l He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut hy the Danuhe lay, There were... | |
| James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 pages
...aim, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout that hail'd the wretch who won. " He heard it, and he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, and...prize, — But, where his rude hut by the Danube lay, The.-e were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother : — he, their sire, Butcher'd... | |
| Walter Scott - Demonology - 1838 - 1198 pages
...the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. " He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eye» Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He reck'd...the life he lost nor prize, — But where his rude hat by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother,... | |
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