 THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is...  The songs of England and Scotland - Pàgina 232per England - 1835Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1845 - 312 pàgines
...sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Gallilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. S. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the /ace... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 pàgines
...SENNACHERIB. Anapestic. Four feet. 1. THE Assyrian came down* like the wolf on the fold', And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold' ; And the sheen...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green', That host' with their banners' at sunset were... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pàgines
...themselves,— Channing. 6. While this multitude of flies 7s filling all the air with melody. Wordsworth. 7. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...That host with their banners at sunset were seen. — Byron. 207. A noun is sometimes put in the nominative, even when it is not the subject of the sentence,... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 pàgines
...down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold : And the sheen of the spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
 | Roger de Flor (fict.name.) - 1845 - 1130 pàgines
...down like the wolf on the fold, His cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of his spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on the deep Gallilee." Byron. BEFORE the reader is transported from Constantinople to Asia Minor, and... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB'S ARMY.1 THE Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts2 were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was l1ke stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest... | |
 | Menella Bute Smedley - 1845 - 226 pàgines
...bright as the stars of night.'" It is bad policy to remind my readers of Byron's exquisite line— " And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea;" but I suppose that were I to omit such a reference, I should incur the charge of plagiarism. " 'Tis... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 636 pàgines
...the other. " J*. ABD-EL-KADER. " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold : And the sheen of...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown." PEACE, humanity, and civilization, are deeply indebted to the desolate and magnificent... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1851 - 816 pàgines
...of Austria, Suabia, Alsace, Strasbourg, Lucerne, and Zurich, amounting to upwards of 26,000 men ! " Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown." ' Shortly after this glorious victory, the treaty of alliance between the three cantons was finally... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pàgines
...And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold And the sheen of their spears was like stars on th< sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee...were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn ball blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Angel uf Death spread his wings... | |
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