 I see before me the gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand—his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one. Like the first of a  The Port Folio - Page 3601822Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Brandon - 1811 - 598 pages
...maws Of worms — on battle-plains or listed spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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
...but the mental feelings and thro of the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' I see before me the Gladiator He: 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And liis drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1825 - 550 pages
...anything in the whole poem more touching than the sec^fcl of the following stanzas. 1825.] Lord Byron. 43 I see before me the Gladiator lie; He leans upon 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 Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie: W 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 Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1823 - 402 pages
...spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. see before me the Gladiator lie: (5!l) 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.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (59) 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
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