 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 - Pàgina 194per Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | J. F. Gomoszyński - 1843 - 106 pàgines
...good men's lives Expire before the flowers in their caps, Dying, or ere they sicken. MACBKTH, Act 4. He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his weak head hanga droopingly and low ; While from his side the life'drops tnrilling SowLike the first... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pàgines
...spot? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (') Ho 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... | |
 | 1843 - 368 pàgines
...greeting Of an enamour'd goddess, and the cell Haunted by holy love — the earliest oracle ! «*****#« I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly browConsents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low ; And through his... | |
 | 1842 - 572 pàgines
...merely recherche illustration suggested by thought or perception of analogies purely intellectual : — "And through his side the last drops ebbing slow From...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower." Nothing can be more forced than the comparison of drops of blood to drops of rain.... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pàgines
...despair. The flowers that adorn his poetry bloom over charnel-houses and the grave ! THE DYING GLADIATOR. 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 through his side the last drops, ebbing slow • From the red... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...see before me the gladiator lie : '} CA*»"~*-v ÍA** . He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow ï 1 b 5 &. i/W I W ) {#Ȝ i G' _ ɰh8& ~n I M6 \ ex...TF a Z]1Ya( Q( 9J S $§ Æ4Q@'_w G < clow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the firrt of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1845 - 230 pàgines
...from the moving association with which he invests it, has the graphic fidelity of a Daguerreotype. " 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 through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash,... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 pàgines
...a poet's fancy has conjured up those images which nature mingles with our latest consciousness : " 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 thro' his side the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash,... | |
 | 1845 - 916 pàgines
...' Childe Harold,' with which we shall beg to refresh the reader's memory. VOL. i. — NO. vii. 2 i. 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 through his side the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash,... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 pàgines
...found to embody. The poet interposes while the strife is loudest, and furnishes the perfect history. " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...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... | |
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