 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1853 - 394 pages
...it can only be regarded as a copy. The rt. arm and the toes of both feet are admirably restored. • 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...Of worms — on battle-plains or listed spot? Roth are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. sigh, Nor solely dare encounter hostile rage, Or tear...Slavery's mournful page. LXXVI. Hereditary bondsme droop'd head sinks gradually low—- And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...believe Itnl in one rit» »l«ne jCnpual forty tbnnsand were kept, ami fed. nnd trained to buteher I sec before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand...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,... | |
 | 1853 - 168 pages
...fallen foe — that foe, perhaps, his countryman and his friend. " I see before me the gladiator He : 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 sides the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash... | |
 | Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1853 - 402 pages
...with my own ideas, that I will take the liberty of quoting it, although familiar to my hearers :— " 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,... | |
 | Treasury - 1853 - 276 pages
...or listed spot? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me tbe Gladiator He : 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.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...maws Of worms — on battle-plains or listed spot 1 Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. 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... | |
 | 1854 - 660 pages
...to the mind of Byron has made a passage in Childe Harold familiar to all readers of English poetry : I see before me the gladiator lie ; He leans upon...— his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers ngony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low And through his side the last drops — ebbing slow... | |
 | 1854 - 332 pages
...countenance expressive of very bitterness. Irresistibly the poet's lines broke in upon the memory: — " I see before me the gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, and conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — As through his side the last drops,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pages
...seeing — he beholds Alaric and his hosts coming down in vengeance on the doomed and guilty city : " 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... | |
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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,... 
