...yet they feel it not ; It was an agony — but now forgot ! THE DYING GLADIATOR. — (Childe Harold.) I SEE before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon...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,...

...swelling subterfuge of moral littleness,— yet rising to the rapt vision of the dying athlete:— "I see before me the gladiator lie: He leans upon...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...

...Such was the bloody Circus' genial laws, And the imperial pleasure. — -Wherefore not? What matters where we fall to fill the maws Of worms — on battle-plains...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...

...sure than day and night— Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. THE DYING GLAD1ATOR.* — Byron. I see before me the gladiator lie ; He leans upon...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,...

...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...Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd he id sinks gradually Ipw ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall...

...Byron's picture of the dying gladiator is inimitably touching and beautiful. THE DYING GLADIATOR. 2. I see before me the gladiator lie. He leans upon his...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,...

...gladiator — a spectacle thus pathetically described by a poet, albeit unused to the melting mood : — ' I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon-...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...

...described, but with a development of the subjective condition into which it throws the narrator.* " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the hist drops, ebbing slow From the red...

...described, but with a development of the subjective condition into which it throws the narrator.* " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow Prom the red...

...Such were the bloody Circus' genial laws, And the imperial pleasure. — Wherefore not? What matters where we fall to fill the maws Of worms — on battle-plains...Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but...