 | William Harvey Wells - 1848 - 258 pàgines
...Gibbon. " Africa, as well as Gaul, was gradually fashioned to the imitation of the capital." — Ibid. "Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...That host with their banners, at sunset were seen." — Byron. " The almost unobserved advancement and diffusion of knowledge were paving the way for discoveries."... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 414 pàgines
...Sennacherib I have heard." That same night the utter ruin of the Syrian army was accomplished. Lake the leaves of the forest, when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset are seen ; Like the leaves of the forest, when autumn is flown, That host on the morrow lay withered... | |
 | Henry F. Brooks - 1848 - 114 pàgines
...points; thus the glittering of drawn swords is properly termed sheen.—Cf. Byron's Hebrew Melodies: " And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea." The appearance of moonlight, broken by the shadows of a woodland landscape, may therefore not inaptly... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pàgines
...many a day with measures full of sadness! DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. LOBD BYRON. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset was seen; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd... | |
 | 1856 - 1270 pàgines
...above, The living, the living, Prayer, praise, and thanksgiving, Shall joyfully render their love. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came...were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of his spears were like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls mighty on deep Galilee. Like the leaves... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1849 - 118 pàgines
...the three trisyllabic measures have a great tendency to intermingle. 1. The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold^ And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold : And the she£n of the spears was like stars on the s£a, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pàgines
...before; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perished ; Darkness had no need THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. The Assyrian came...forest when summer is green, That host with their baaners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the... | |
 | 1850 - 300 pàgines
...of my heart ! Bright is the diadem, boundless the sway, Or kingly the death which awaits us to-day ! THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came...gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars in the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer... | |
 | John Blackburn - 1850 - 256 pàgines
...in some grand and most impressive lines, with which I will close this part of my discourse : — " Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen : J jiki! the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1850 - 446 pàgines
...accomplished in every point. DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. "I WILL SEND A BLAST UPON HIM." The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue waves... | |
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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. 
