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 Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated - Page 92by James McCosh - 1860 - 516 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 - 600 pages
...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,...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... | |
| 1818 - 598 pages
...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,...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... | |
| English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...' I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to de:ith, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually...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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...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,...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... | |
| 1819 - 630 pages
...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,...through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, full heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...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...sinks gradually low-— And through his side the last drqps , ebbing slow From the red gash , fall heavy , one by one , Like the first drops of a thunder-shower,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...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,...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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...(39> 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, Like the first of a thunder- shower ; and now The arena swims around... | |
| Moyle Sherer - Egypt - 1825 - 454 pages
...true, an unaffected sorrow: — " I see before me the gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony,...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... | |
| Moyle Sherer - Egypt - 1825 - 454 pages
...true, an unaffected sorrow : — " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony,...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... | |
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