 | George W. Burnap - 1841 - 288 páginas
...to recollect that it has succeeded such scenes as that so admirably described by a modern poet. "I see before me the Gladiator lie: — He leans upon...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 he heeded not —... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 348 páginas
...horrors of Roman slavery, without referring to Byron's noble description of the Dying Gladiator : I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his...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 - 1841 - 342 páginas
...horrors of Roman slavery, without referring to Byron's noble description of the Dying Gladiator : . I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his...— 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1841 - 296 páginas
...admirably described by a modern poet. "I see before me the Gladiator lie:— He leans upon his hand—his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony,...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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1841 - 390 páginas
...gladiators. — The English poet, Lord Byron, has given a fine description of a dying gladiator. 5. " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his...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... | |
 | 1851 - 428 páginas
...Borne — Rome, the mistress of the world — and realize the noble description of a departed poet. I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his...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... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 340 páginas
...description of the Dying Gladiator: I see before me the gladiator lie : He'leans upon his hand—his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony,...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 Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 páginas
...are hut theatres, where the chief actors rot. -' T XL.™ I see before me the Gladiator lie: He Jeans hort space of one month, I have lost her who gave me i'íing, and most of those droopM head sinks gradually low — (I) The following afnnzn was written as the Kilitli, but afterwards... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 páginas
...battle-plains or listed spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot, С XL. I sec before m« the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop 'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drop?, ebbing slow From the red... | |
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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,... 
