 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...  Childe Harold's pilgrimage: Italy - Page 104by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth - 1833 - 564 pages
...agony ; And his droop'd beid links gradually low ; And through his aide, the last drop», ebbing alow From the red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the...around him — he Is gone, Ere ceased the Inhuman ahont that hall'd the wretch who won.' M Now'all this sculpture has embodied In perpetual marble.'and... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 348 pages
...of them could intimate by any visible sign. But we must return to the swoon of the dying man : — " The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout that hail'd the wretch who won. " He heard it, and he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1834 - 496 pages
...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...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 sound which... | |
 | Jules Michelet - 1834 - 268 pages
...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 red gash , fall heavy , one by one , Like the 6rst of a thunder-show er ; and now The arena swims around hirn — he is gone ,| Ere ceased the inhuman... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Coins - 1834 - 388 pages
...«till further to increase the public hilarity, 2000 gladiators were matched in mortal affray : — " and now The arena swims around him — he is gone,...the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won." " He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He reck'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 398 pages
...: 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...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 - 1836 - 356 pages
...: 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...and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, CXL. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away : (') He... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...killed h> OEdipim ; or Сгргем bvald of Eunthoni, Killed hy the Athrnians wiirn in; ondfftvonrrd to And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From...the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CXLL He heard it, but he heeded not— his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; (2) île... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 352 pages
...gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ehhing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one hy one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now...which hail'd the wretch who won. CxLI. He heard it, hut he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; l He reck'd not of the... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 320 pages
...: 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 inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, nnd that was far away; He reck'd not... | |
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