 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...calm but heaven ! IX DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIR'S HOST AT JERUSALEM. THE Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in...when autumn hath blown, That host, on the morrow, lay withered and strown. For, the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1850 - 446 pages
...purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue waves roll nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest...death spread his wings on the blast, And breathe'd on the face of the foe as he pass'd, And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their... | |
 | 1850 - 300 pages
...Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset was seen ; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath...Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed on the face of the foe as he past ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their... | |
 | John Blackburn - 1850 - 256 pages
...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...angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breath'd on the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd heavy and chill,... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...parted. Shame and dislwnor sit By his grave ever : Blessings shall hallow it Never ! oh, never ! BCOTT. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face... | |
 | George Henry Taylor (master of the Model sch, Battersea.) - 1851 - 292 pages
...destruction of the Assyrians is most powerfully described in the following verses : — " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Augel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And... | |
 | 1851 - 614 pages
...camp of Senacherib was smitten with pestilence, and 185,000 of his men perished. " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown ! "For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Widows. Wolf. Broke. Purple. Host. Idols. Sheen. Lay. "Hostwere." Angel. Nightly. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 396 pages
...thrown off their guard ? 23 Was their loss great ? SECTION IV. DESTRUCTION OF THE ATHENIAN EXPEDITION. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...when autumn hath blown. That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. — Byron. 1. WHILE Ni"cias was reflecting with grief upon c BC his present unhappy... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 336 pages
...hundred and fourscore and five thousand : and when the morning dawned behold they were all dead men."i "Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown." Thns in one night perished one hundred and eighty-five thousand fighting men,... | |
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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. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is... 
