. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. -STATUE OF TITUS, IN THE page < o CO _l < cT Q CO UJ N 284 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. mon problem of life, whose evils have been to him soprolific a heritage. God aid him ! It may be interesting, also, to compare with the statuethe thoughts and emotions suggested, by the suppositionthat it was a dying gladiator, to the poet Byron: I see before me the Gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand—his manly brow Consents to death but conquers agony, And his drooped hea
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. -STATUE OF TITUS, IN THE page < o CO _l < cT Q CO UJ N 284 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. mon problem of life, whose evils have been to him soprolific a heritage. God aid him ! It may be interesting, also, to compare with the statuethe thoughts and emotions suggested, by the suppositionthat it was a dying gladiator, to the poet Byron: 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, 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 tlie wretch who won. He heard it ; but he heeded not—his eyesWere with his heart, and that was far recked not of the life he lost, nor prize,But where his rude hut by the Danube lay,There were his young barbarians all at play,There was their Dacian mother—he their sireButchered to make a
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