...merely recherche illustration suggested by thought or perception of analogies purely intellectual : — "And through his side the last drops ebbing slow From...heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower." Nothing can be more forced than the comparison of drops of blood to drops of rain. Note also the antithesis...

...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...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 hail'd the wretch who...

...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...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...

...' 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...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now And now the arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman...

...: 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...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...

...: 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...one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout, which hailed the wretch who...

...— 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...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...

...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 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...

...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...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...

...his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop 'd head sinks gradually tow— neath thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — be is gone. Ere ceased the inhuman shout which...