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...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...

...bloom over charnel-houses and the grave ! THE DYING GLADIATOR. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...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...

...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....

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...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 hand — his manly brow Consents...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...

...which he invests it, has the graphic fidelity of a Daguerreotype. " I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents...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...

...crystalline well, And tastes it as it goes. Gray. THE DYING GLADIATOR.1 I SEE before me the Gladiator 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, the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash,...