 | 1818 - 606 pagini
...features and stiffened limbs, but the mental feelings and throes of the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to de:ith, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pagini
...features and stiffened limbs, but the mental feelings and throes ttf the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pagini
...rot. CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie ; 55 He leans upon bis hand — his manly brow Consents to death , but conquers agony , And his drooped head...sinks gradually low-— And through his side the last drqps , ebbing slow From the red gash , fall heavy , one by one , Like the first drops of a thunder-shower,... | |
 | 1819 - 656 pagini
...eye, if not the ear, of such as are accustomed to correct rhymes, and a consistent orthography : " I see before me the gladiator lie : " He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow [.agony, " Consents to death, but conquers " And his drooped head sinks gradually low, [ebbiug... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pagini
...features and stiffened limbs, but the mental feelings and throes of the expiring swordsman. CXL. ' I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pagini
...Of worms — on battle-plains or listed spot? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. CXL. I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through... | |
 | 1824 - 470 pagini
...or, in the words of Byron, which form the best panegyric upon this wonderful statue thai I can give, 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 again, -His... | |
 | Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 pagini
...to the very eye, a picture which I defy you to look upon without a true, an unaffected sorrow: — " I see before me the gladiator 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... | |
 | Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 pagini
...to the very eye a picture which I defy you to look upon without a true, an unaffected sorrow : — " I see before me the gladiator 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pagini
...N CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (55) He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his nide the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower... | |
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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 drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like... 
