 | Frederick Burwick, Jürgen Klein - 1996 - 576 páginas
...pair of lovers; Raine glosses this set of figures as "an emblem of the source of ail life" (9). ebhing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower. (1256-8). Equally revealing is the order of the ekphrastic passages, which begin with Venus (433-68),... | |
 | Michael Grant - 1995 - 136 páginas
...alive. Byron was moved to picture one such victim - a prisoner of war from a remote village of Dacia. The arena swims around him -he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not - his eyes Were with his heart, and... | |
 | James A. W. Heffernan - 2004 - 261 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...around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and... | |
 | Daniel Eddy - 2005 - 509 páginas
...as " He leans upon his hand — Ms manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the...gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; " — the Venus of the Capitol, none too well veiled for common gaze ; and many a... | |
 | Augustus Hare - 2005 - 361 páginas
...conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low,— And through !ш ящг. the last, drnpíi, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thuüder.shower ; and BOW The arena swims around him — he is goiae, Ere ceased the mbtmian shout... | |
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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,... 
