 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2211818Full view - About this book
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 348 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...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 Washington Burnap - Women - 1841 - 296 pages
...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...ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, lake the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him—he is gone, Ere ceased the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, füll heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; ami now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere...ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch . who won. CXLI. lie heard it. but lie heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away;... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1841 - 390 pages
...death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the life drops, ebbing slow From the red 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... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 342 pages
...last drops ebbing slow Prom the red 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 hail'dthe wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes "Were with his heart, and that... | |
 | Civilization - 1851 - 428 pages
...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side tho last drops, ebbing s!ow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; aud now The ii ivsui swims around him — he in gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 340 pages
...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 Prom the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...conquers agony, And his droop 'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drop?, irit! I Know nought of death, save as a dreadful thing Of which I have heard my parents speak, won. CXLI. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ;... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1860 - 848 pages
...shower — soon 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,... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pages
...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... | |
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