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" And through his side the 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 hailed the wretch who won. "
Calcutta Review - Page 94
1857
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who wen. He heard it, but he heeded not ; qh B ̣7 l*H; * `:i 9 ˒0[ - !D ؗ< xv u n\ ͒;9 ˗ pJh AV rC 5T # y@ u $ , bc G a 1 : 1 1 1 where his rude hut by the Danube lay ; Then were his young barbarians all at play, There...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...gone, Kre 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 that was far away ; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 that was far away...lay — There were his young barbarians all at play, 1 These beautiful lines have often been quoted as an instance of the superior range of poetry, compared...
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Letters from Italy

Joel Tyler Headley - 1845 - 240 pages
...the " inhuman shout" rung over the arena to his victor, you know " He heard it but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rud« hut by the Daunbe lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother...
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The Rose Annual

National Rose Society - 1923 - 308 pages
...made by singing, ' Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade." You know Byron's famous lines: — There were his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother; he, their sire, Butcher 'd to make a Roman holiday 1 It isn't quite as bad as that, but never, never will I forget...
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Literature and Nationalism

Vincent Newey, Ann Thompson - 1991 - 316 pages
...eye-spectacle of public death to the interior vision of a heart: He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay There were his young...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...ceased the inhuman shoot which hail' Л the wretch who won. CXLI. He heard it, bat he heeded not — for conquest reok'd not of the life he lost nor prize, Bat where his rode hat by the Danube lay, There were his...
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Gladiators

Michael Grant - 1995 - 136 pages
...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 that was far away;...Dacian mother - he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday. While African boys raked over the bloodstained sand, fallen gladiators were taken away....
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Venice & the Grand Tour

Bruce Redford - 1996 - 156 pages
...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 that was far away; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay There were his young...
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Selected Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...Ere ceased 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 not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, CXL 1265 There...
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