 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.  Better English for Speaking and Writing - Стр. 371авторы: Sarah Emma Simons, Clem Irwin Orr, Mary Ella Given - 1920Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1851 - Страниц: 328
...Assyrians a hundred four score and five thousand : and in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses." "Like the leaves of the forest, when summer is green, That host v/ith their banners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - Страниц: 380
...— Ireland fbrtver 1 LESSON CXLVII. The Destruction of Sennacherib. — BYRON. 1. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green That host with their banners at sunset were seen... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1995 - Страниц: 412
...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 - Страниц: 413
...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... | |
 | Alfred Alvarez - 1996 - Страниц: 324
...can never fake, he was not referring to the regular, mechanical thumpity-thump - 'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,/ And his cohorts were gleaming in silver and gold' he meant the inner rhythm, the natural breath. When the poet is genuinely disturbed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - Страниц: 868
...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 F. A. Sawyer - 1996 - Страниц: 336
...Byron's poem The Destruction of Semnachenb.39 It begins with the memorable lines: 'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, /And his cohorts were gleaming Schell, 'Lilith', p. 455. Schell, 'Lilith', p. 455. 35 MacDonald, Lilith, p. 378. 36 MacDonald, Lililh,... | |
 | John Malcolm Russell, Judith Sheila McKenzie, Judith McKenzie, Stephanie Dalley, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff - 1997 - Страниц: 244
...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... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - Страниц: 476
...Museum. 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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - Страниц: 686
...leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! 1941 is questions One by one to an untenanted cross. 1942 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed... | |
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