 | A. H. Weatherley - 2003 - Страниц: 276
...A fragment of poetry from my schooldays kept popping up in my mind? "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." an hour like a bat out of Hell. I knew by then that I was not going to be able to run down all of the... | |
 | Duncan B. Forrester, James Ian H. McDonald, Gian Tellini - 2004 - Страниц: 254
...conquest: on its conquest and subjugation of Northern Israel (Jonah's country), when The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. (Byron) The result: the destruction of the country, the ruin of a culture and religion, the dismembering... | |
 | Joseph R. Goldyne, Eric Denker, Thomas H. Garver - 2004 - Страниц: 328
...lifii'wliich for' him I'resign. IIKUHEW MELODIES. THE Dr.STRUCTlON OF SEMNACHERIB. I. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. II. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were... | |
 | Andrew Michael Arnold - 2004 - Страниц: 348
...purple and gold." Obviously not the first time the family had been regaled with the quotation. "... And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the...when the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." Mr Ginger winked at me. "Lord Byron," he remarked. "I expect you have heard of him." I did not admit... | |
 | Stephen Fry - 2006 - Страниц: 396
...AND MARK THE ANAPAESTS HERE (Assyrian is three syllables, by the way, not four): The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen on their spears was like stars on the sea, And the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Byron doesn't... | |
 | Charles S. Maier - 2006 - Страниц: 396
...Senacherib's unsuccessful siege of Jerusalem — his hubris dashed by pestilence: "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold / and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." But Jerusalem was spared only for a little more than a century, and it was exceptional: Babylon fell... | |
 | M. G. Easton - 2006 - Страниц: 757
...of in the Assyrian annals. The scene is thus depicted by the English poet :-— " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with pnrple end gold Like the leave» of the forest when summer is That host with their banners at... | |
 | Meaghan Morris - 2006 - Страниц: 270
...noise warps my reading, as a restless schoolchild within me drones, 'The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold'12 - and, since boredom is catching, I prefer to work with other plateaus first. There is nothing... | |
 | J. Edward Chamberlin - 2007 - Страниц: 232
...Sennacherib, celebrated by Byron in a famous poem (inspired by another passage in Isaiah): The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. A chariot attack must have been an awesome sight, and the sound too must have been overwhelming. Chariots... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - 2007 - Страниц: 896
...success of his military career — that most English-speaking students remember. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. . . . For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as... | |
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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. 
