 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,...  The Living Authors of America: 1st ser - Page 194by Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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
...or, in the words of Byron, which form the best panegyric upon this wonderful statue thai I can give, 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 again, -His eyes Were with his heart, and that was faf away :... | |
 | 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 death but conquers agony. And his droop'd head sinks gradually Ion, And through his side the last drops ebhing flow From the deep gash... | |
 | Moyle Sherer - Egypt - 1825 - 454 pages
...to the very eye, a picture which I defy you to look upon without a true, an unaffected sorrow: — " I see before me the gladiator lie: He leans upon his...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, but... | |
 | Moyle Sherer - Egypt - 1825 - 454 pages
...unaffected sorrow:— " I see before me the gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand—his manly browConsents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head...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, but... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...poem more touching than the second of the following stanzas. I see before me the Gladiator lie ; ,f. 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...5 9 He leans upon his hand— his manly brow Consents to death, hut conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low— And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow I'rom the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims... | |
 | John Richard Digby Beste - Italy - 1826 - 538 pages
...can I sufficiently praise some specimens preserved in one room of the Capitol ? " I see before roe the Gladiator lie: " He leans upon his hand his manly...ebbing slow -' From the red gash, fall heavy, one by cue, " Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now " The arena swims around him. He is gone, " Ere... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. N CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (55) He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his nide the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...battle-plains or listed spot? Both arc but theatres where the chief nctor< rot. CHILDE HAROLD'S ST. 140—119. droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the lii.-l drops, eliding slow From the red... | |
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