 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...  A Book of Golden Deeds: Of All Times and All Lands - Pàgina 102per Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1864 - 454 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pàgines
...features and stiffened limbs, but the mental feelings and throes ttf the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | 1818 - 606 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | 1819 - 656 pàgines
...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pàgines
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pàgines
...Of worms — on battle-plains or listed spot? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 582 pàgines
...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 - 1822 - 108 pàgines
...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 !... | |
 | 1824 - 232 pàgines
...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...conquers agony. And his droop'd head sinks gradually Ion, And through his side the last drops ebhing flow From the deep gash — fall heavy one by one Like... | |
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