 | 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... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1845 - 230 pages
...which he invests it, has the graphic fidelity of a Daguerreotype. " 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 ceas'd the inhuman shout which... | |
 | 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)... | |
 | 1846 - 236 pages
...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 fall...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... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 pages
...ancient and unknown sculptor has so well expressed in marble — " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...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... | |
 | 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
...listed spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. 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. He heard it, hut he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away : He reck'd... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George W. Burnap - 1848 - 358 pages
...such scenes as that so admirably described by a modern poet. " I see before me ihe Gladiator lie: — He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...bubbling cry, Of some strong swimmer in his agony. THE GLADIATOR. 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. 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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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,... 
