 | 1851 - Liczba stron: 428
...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...conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side tho last drops, ebbing s!ow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1841 - Liczba stron: 390
...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...conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the life drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one,... | |
 | George W. Burnap - 1841 - Liczba stron: 288
...ought 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...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,... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - Liczba stron: 348
...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...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,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - Liczba stron: 474
...genial laws, And the imperial pleasure. — Wherefore not ? What matters where we fall to fill the maws I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...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,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - Liczba stron: 866
...fellow man. And wherefore slaughtcr'd ? wherefore, but because Such were the bloody Circus' genial laws. ven, and Zillah casts hers to the earth, And sighs...thou ? Cain. Thoughts unspeakable Crowd in my breast С XL. I sec before m« the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - Liczba stron: 548
...fellow man. And wherefore slaughter'd 1 wherefore, but because Such were the bloody Circus' genial laws, And the imperial pleasure. — Wherefore not ? What...spot/ Both are but theatres where the chief actors roU/ CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (') He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - Liczba stron: 382
...vanquished party was entirely rooted out, there would remain no subjects to oppress. CHAPTER IV. " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...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, Like... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - Liczba stron: 560
...but because Such were the bloody Circus' genial laws, And the imperial pleasure. — .Wherefore not 1 What matters where we fall to fill the maws Of worms...Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (') Ho leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - Liczba stron: 372
...despair. The flowers that adorn his poetry bloom over charnel-houses and the grave ! THE DYING GLADIATOR. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...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,... | |
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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,... 
