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...the passage, in his description of the statue of the Dying Gladiator. The arena swims around him—he is gone, Ere ceased 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 not...

...illustrating the truthful beauty of Lord Byron's description of the dying gladiator — "And his drooped head sinks gradually low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing (low, From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the lir.it of a thunder shower." the heavy drops,...

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