 | John Richard Digby Beste - 1826 - 538 sider
...can I sufficiently praise some specimens preserved in one room of the Capitol ? " I see before roe the Gladiator lie: " He leans upon his hand his manly..." Consents to death, but conquers agony, " And his drooped head sinks gradually low— " And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow -' From the... | |
 | Wilkins Tannehill - 1827 - 354 sider
...thousand gladiators engaged in mortal fight for the amusement and gratification of a depraved populace : I see before me the gladiator lie; He leans upon his...ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, • j T. ike fhe first of a thunder shower, and now » * * • •* t • » ' HISTORY OF LITERATURE.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 630 sider
...then go and search for pleasing associations at the Coliseum : " I see before me the gladiator lie j 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... | |
 | 1827 - 436 sider
...or, in the words of Byron, which form the best panegyric upon this wonderful statue that I can give, I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand ; — his manly brow Consent* to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low. and again, -His eyes... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 sider
...Childe Harold,* will remind the reader of the fate of the Dacian captives, when brought to 'Rome. ' 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 gash,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 sider
...of 'Childe Harold,' will remind the reader of the fate of the Dacian captives, when brought to Rome. '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 gash,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 sider
...hi« droop d head sinke gradually low — And through hi* side the last drops, ebbing slow From lite red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now i ТЫ: arena swims around him— lie is gone, i let near. H the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1829 - 532 sider
...readers. Let any one peruse it, and then go and search for pleasing associations at the Coliseum : " 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 sider
...men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. Ooldmith. I see before me the gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Coastals to death, but conquers agony. Lord Byron's ChMe HarM. AGON, among the ancients, implied any... | |
 | Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 sider
...relative to these victories, in his touching description of the dying Gladiator in the Coliseum, — " I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand, — his manly brow Cousents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low, And through his side... | |
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I see before me the Gladiator lie : 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 gash, fall heavy, one by one,... 
