 | 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 his...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... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1843 - 616 páginas
...regarded as a copy. The right arm and the toes of both feet were admirably restored by Michael Angelo. " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand— his manly brow Consents to death, butconquers agouy, And his droop M head sinks gradually low— And through his aide the last drops,... | |
 | J. F. Gomoszyński - 1843 - 106 páginas
...good men's lives Expire before the flowers in their caps, Dying, or ere they sicken. MACBKTH, Act 4. He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his weak head hanga droopingly and low ; While from his side the life'drops tnrilling SowLike the first... | |
 | 1843 - 368 páginas
...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 his hand ; his manly browConsents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low ; And through his... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 páginas
...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 his...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... | |
 | 1842 - 572 páginas
...merely recherche illustration suggested by thought or perception of analogies purely intellectual : — "And through his side the last drops ebbing slow From...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower." Nothing can be more forced than the comparison of drops of blood to drops of rain.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
.... He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow ï Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped M6 \ ex j TF a Z]1Ya( Q( 9J S $§ Æ4Q@'_w G < clow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the firrt of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena... | |
 | 1845 - 916 páginas
...Childe Harold,' with which we shall beg to refresh the reader's memory. VOL. i. — NO. vii. 2 i. I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his...one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now And now the arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1845 - 230 páginas
...from the moving association with which he invests it, has the graphic fidelity of a Daguerreotype. " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceas'd the inhuman shout which... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 páginas
...poet's fancy has conjured up those images which nature mingles with our latest consciousness : " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And thro' his side the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first... | |
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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,... 
