 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 páginas
...no need Of aid from them — She was the universe. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHEHIB. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Aututnn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. For the angel of Death spread... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1854 - 346 páginas
...poetic genius it becomes one of the mQst magnificent -pictures in all literature. " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host wilh their banners at sunset were seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 páginas
...HEBREW MELODIES. * The kiosk is a Turkish summer-house. — BTBOS. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. 135 THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came...stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly ou deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1991 - 552 páginas
...legion' sense. One of the better known examples of this sense is in Byron's lines: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold . . . — "The Destruction of Sennacherib", 1815 The Assyrians existed a lot earlier than the Roman... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...EnRP; LiTB; NAEL-2; OAEL-2; OPOP; PoE; PoEL-4; TEP The Destruction of Sennacherib 12 The Assyrian came of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; (1. 119-126) 76 Till the war- (1. 1-2) 13 And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 páginas
...With the voice of the spoiler by me 1 THE DESTRUCTION OF SENN ACHER IB. I. Тнв Аявтпжп came v П. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer ¡s green, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - 412 páginas
...innocent! 1814 1815 * Numbers in square brackets refer to pages on which notes may be found. [370] THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his coborts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea.... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1995 - 413 páginas
...has "rollf "] on the fold, And 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 deep Galilee. These are the opening lines from Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib," Mark Twain's favorite stanza... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 páginas
...sand This could not last - she lies by him she loved; Her tale untold - her truth too dearly proved. The Destruction of Sennacherib The Assyrian came down...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. II 5 Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
 | John Malcolm Russell, Judith Sheila McKenzie, Judith McKenzie, Stephanie Dalley, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff - 1997 - 244 páginas
...original and powerfully expressive renditions of Ninevite subjects. The most memorable of these, Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib" ("The Assyrian came.../ And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold . . ."), was penned in 1815, twenty-five hundred years after Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem, the... | |
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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. 
