 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 494 pages
...Host. Angel. Distorted. Widows. Idols. Assvrian. Wolf. 'Sheen. Nightly. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in...of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the hlue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB'S ARMY. THE Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts2 were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. ( t ) Wont — is were once wont. CO Cohorts— A cohort is strictly a troop of Roman soMiers only... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...' is thy sting ? 4. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. — Lord Byron. B. 1788, d. 1824. The Assyrian came down | like a wolf ' on the fold, And his cohorts ' were gleaming ' in purple and g61d ; And the sheen of their spears ' was like stars ' on the sea, When the blue w&ve ' rolls nightly... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...of the spoiler by me 1 THE DESTRUCTION OF SENN ACHER IB. I. ÂÝÒ °ïÒâßÖß came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were gleaming in...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. ¿. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer ¡s green, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1995 - 413 pages
...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 pages
...untold - her truth too dearly proved. The Destruction of Sennacherib The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in...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 pages
...most memorable of these, Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib" ("The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold . . ."), was penned in 1815, twenty-five hundred years after Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem, the... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pages
...Assyrian . . . purple: compare Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib iz: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; i, 4-5 The ladies . . . steam from drying rubber overshoes . . . hats: compare two consecutive sentences... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...from Lord Byron's galloping poem "The Destruction of Sennacherib," altogether anapestic: The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. There is a fifth foot pattern — not properly a meter — which is used with fair frequency, the spondee.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...and the grief Are mine alone! 1941 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' The Assyrian came down like the Z h I ꏨ " 998 Wordsworth"' 1942 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed... | |
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