| 1840 - 368 Seiten
...sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavily, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and...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 not... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 Seiten
...last drops ebbing slow From the red 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 hail'd the wretcli who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far... | |
| Jules Michelet - 1840 - 718 Seiten
...p. 25-30). PAGE 14. — Je vois devant moi le gladiateur expirant... — Childe-Harold. rv, 191 -2. I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents tq death! but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the... | |
| George W. Burnap - 1841 - 288 Seiten
...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...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 not... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 342 Seiten
...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...— And through his side the last drops ebbing slow Prom the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 Seiten
...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... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1841 - 390 Seiten
...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...head sinks gradually low — And through his side the life drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower... | |
| George Washington Burnap - 1841 - 296 Seiten
...admirably described by a modern poet. "I see before me the Gladiator lie:— He leans upon his hand—his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony,...ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, lake the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him—he is gone, Ere ceased the... | |
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