 | George Washington Bethune - 1840 - 64 páginas
...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... | |
 | E.C. and W. Osborne - 1840 - 334 páginas
...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 Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 páginas
...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...the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CXLI. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He reck'd... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 348 páginas
...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... | |
 | 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 Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 páginas
...conquers agony, And his droop 'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drop?, irit! I Know nought of death, save as a dreadful thing Of which I have heard my parents speak, CXLI. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; ' He... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 páginas
...Of worms — on battle-plains or listed spot/ Both are but theatres where the chief actors roU/ CXL. I see before me the Gladiator lie : (') He leans upon...the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. (I) Whether the wonderful statue which suggested this image be a laquearian CXLI. He heard it, but... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 páginas
...spot? 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...the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. CXL. CXLI. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away.... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - 382 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 páginas
...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...and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Kre ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won He heard it, but he heeded not — his... | |
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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,... 
