 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2211818Full view - About this book
 | John Miley - Christianity and culture - 1843 - 382 pages
...: 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...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 Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low— And through his aide the last drops, ebbing slow Prom the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first...swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shoot which hail' Л the wretch who won. CXLI. He heard it, bat he heeded not — his eyes Were with... | |
 | David B. Cohen - Medical - 1995 - 372 pages
...an ancient Greek chorus, Byron speaks: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony; And his drooped head sinks gradually...— he is gone Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. With his life's work, Castlereagh had won his place in history. With suicide,... | |
 | John Varriano - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 304 pages
...upon his hand - his manly brow Consents to his death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks low, And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow...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 human shout which hailed... | |
 | Bruce Redford - Travel - 1996 - 156 pages
...mini-epic: 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...ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; He reck'd... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...He leans upon his hand - his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, 1255 And his droop'd head sinks gradually low And through his side the...thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him - he is gone, 1260 Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CXLI He heard it, but he heeded... | |
 | Frederick Burwick, Jürgen Klein - Art - 1996 - 576 pages
...pair of lovers; Raine glosses this set of figures as "an emblem of the source of ail life" (9). ebhing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower. (1256-8). Equally revealing is the order of the ekphrastic passages, which begin with Venus (433-68),... | |
 | Michael Grant - Gladiators - 1995 - 136 pages
...alive. Byron was moved to picture one such victim - a prisoner of war from a remote village of Dacia. The arena swims 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, and that... | |
 | James A. W. Heffernan - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 261 pages
...Byron: 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...ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; He reck'd... | |
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