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| Henry Hart Milman - English poetry - 1840 - 400 pages
...Where he bow'd, there he fell dead. From the window she look'd forth, she cried, The mother of Sisera, through the lattice : " Why is his chariot so long in coming ? Why tarry the wheels of his chariot?" Her prudent women answer'd her— Yea, she herself gave answer to herself— " Have they not seized,... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 554 pages
...Where he bow'd, there he fell dead. From the window she look'd forth, she cried, The mother of Sisem, through the lattice: "Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariot ?" Her prudent women answer'd her — Yea, she herself gave answer to herself— "Have they not seized,... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - Bible - 1840 - 468 pages
...— Prov. viiL 1, 2. And of the second ; " The mother of Sisera looked out at the window, and cried through the lattice ; ' Why is his chariot so long in coming ; Why tarry the wheels of his chariots ? ' " — Judges v. 28. Allegory appears, sometimes in its simplest form of an accumulation... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - Bible - 1840 - 468 pages
...— Prov. viii. 1, 2. And of the second ; " The mother of Sisera looked out at the window, and cried through the lattice ; ' Why is his chariot so long in coming ; Why tarry the wheels of his chariots ? ' " — Judges v. 28. • Allegory appears, sometimes in its simplest form of an accumulation... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - Bible - 1840 - 468 pages
...— Prov. viii. 1, 2. And of the second ; " The mother of Sisera looked out at the window, and cried through the lattice ; ' Why is his chariot so long in coming ; Why tarry the wheels of his chariots ? ' " — Judges v. 28. Allegory appears, sometimes in its simplest form of an accumulation... | |
| André Lascombes - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 384 pages
...thoughts to the mother of her vanquished enemy : The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming ? why tarry the wheels of his chariots ? Queen Jezebel awaits Jehu the avenger, all made up, at the window : And she painted her... | |
| Susan Niditch - Bibles - 1995 - 193 pages
...ladies-in-waiting who await his return from battle. "Out of the window she peered, the mother of Sisera gazed through the lattice 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?' Her wisest ladies make answer indeed, she answers the question herself:... | |
| William Gerber - Life - 1994 - 312 pages
...suspected but did not know the worst): (526) The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariot? Second, the Talmud (a post-Biblical compilation of rabbinic pronouncements) recorded the following... | |
| Hanna Scolnicov - Drama - 1994 - 202 pages
...plaque, Nimrud, seventh century BC; British Museum The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming ? why tarry the wheels of his chariots ? (Judges 5 :28) Queen Jezebel awaits Jehu the avenger, all made up, at the window: 'and she... | |
| Thaïs E. Morgan - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 218 pages
...(27). And the third, half in sympathy, half gloatingly, renders the anguished voice of his mother: "Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?" (28). Together, these passages unearth a Wordsworthian interest in female passion as something... | |
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