...: 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...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...

...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...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,...

...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...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,...

...for the 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...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,...

...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...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...

...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...

...swiftly by, And together we'll pass to our " mansion on high." KI A PIONEEK OF OHIO. He leans upon hit hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his drooped head sinks graduatly low— Ami tl,rough his tide the hlst drops, ebhing l!sw From the red gnsh, fell heavdy,...

...arms of her faithful companion. CHAPTER VI. lie leans upon his hand his manly brow, Consents to dgath, but conquers agony; And his drooped head sinks gradually low, And through his sidu the last drops, ehbing slow. From the red gash fall heavy, one by one. Towards him they steer,...

...throes of the expiring swordsman. " I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand,—his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony,...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...

...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...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...