 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 страници
...allusion to the subject, suggested by the view of the Coliseum and the celebrated statue at Rome. — " I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his...around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. " He heard it, but l\e heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 394 страници
...allusion to the subject, suggested, by the view of the Coliseum and the celebrated statue at Rome. — " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...around him — 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 590 страници
...management of the finances entrusted? CHAPTER IX. THE PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS AND PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANS. I see before me the gladiator lie ; He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — • And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1839 - 260 страници
...each by the other, in conflicts with beasts of prey, as ' the playthings of a crowd.' I see before mo the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony ; And his dropp'd bead sinks gradually low — And through bis side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red... | |
 | 536 страници
...They all Dght in the same dresses as before." British Encyclop. of W. Nicholton, THE DYING GLADIATOR. I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, hut conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low— And through his side the last drops,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1848 - 550 страници
...BY CRAVEN. " I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leant upon his hand — hU manly brow Contents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low. And through his side his last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 464 страници
...the 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...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... | |
 | E.C. and W. Osborne - 1840 - 334 страници
...disgusting character. The demoralizing show of the ancients is thus described by our great modern poet : 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... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - 1840 - 64 страници
...sculptor and the poet to be of kindred source, when he remembered Byron's picture of the same victim ! " I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon...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... | |
 | 1840 - 378 страници
...for the greeting Of an enamour'd goddess, and the cell Haunted by holy love — the earliest oracle ! I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...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... | |
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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,... 
