| English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...features and stiffened limbs, but 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 de:ith, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last... | |
| Asia - 1819 - 656 pages
...eye, if not the ear, of such as are accustomed to correct rhymes, and a consistent orthography : " I see before me the gladiator lie : " He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow [.agony, " Consents to death, but conquers " And his drooped head sinks gradually low, [ebbiug slow... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1821 - 572 pages
...remembers, as he dies, " the scenes of his infancy, the hut of his mother, on the banks of the Danube." " I see before me the gladiator lie: He leans upon his...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,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (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... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 582 pages
...remembers, as he dies, " the scenes of 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 df ath, but conquers agony : And hisdroop'd head sinks gradually low; And from his side the last drops,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 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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