 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 pages
...found to embody. The poet interposes while the strife is loudest, and furnishes the perfect history. " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...— he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes, Were with his heart, and that... | |
 | 1845 - 916 pages
...' Childe Harold,' with which we shall beg to refresh the reader's memory. VOL. i. — NO. vii. 2 i. I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon...one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now And now the arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1845 - 230 pages
...from the moving association with which he invests it, has the graphic fidelity of a Daguerreotype. " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceas'd the inhuman shout which... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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, the...— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...— his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually lowAm! through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From...the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CXLI. i He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; (1)... | |
 | Gift - 1846 - 268 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 shout, which... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...maws Of worms — on battle-plains or listed spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, hut he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away : He reck'd not of the life... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop 'd head sinks gradually tow— neath — be is gone. Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. cm. Re heard it but he... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 608 pages
...again, in order to i bring the subject immediately before the eyes, and heart of our readers : — i " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims before him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it,... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...the maws Of worms — on battle plains or listed spot ? Both are but theatres where chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone Ere ceas'd the inhuman shout'which... | |
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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,... 
