 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 590 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 sound which... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...referring to Byron's noble description of the Dying Gladiator : I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...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 Bethune - 1840 - 64 pages
...source, when he remembered Byron's picture of the same victim ! " I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand, his manly brow Consents to...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower; but now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which... | |
 | E.C. and W. Osborne - 1840 - 334 pages
...show of the ancients is thus described by our great modern poet : I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...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... | |
 | 1840 - 368 pages
...goddess, and the cell Haunted by holy love — the earliest oracle ! I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to...the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavily, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him : he is... | |
 | Jules Michelet - 1840 - 718 pages
...his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From I lie red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 pages
...— Wherefore not ? What matters where we fall to fill the maws I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CXLI. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He reck'd... | |
 | George W. Burnap - 1841 - 288 pages
...such scenes as that so admirably described by a modern poet. "I see before me the Gladiator lie: — He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...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... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 348 pages
...referring to Byron's noble description of the Dying Gladiator : I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 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...of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him—he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. " He heard it, but... | |
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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,... 
