 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...  The works of ... lord Byron - Page 195by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That h6st with their banners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn is blown, That h6st on the morrow lay withered and str6wn. 3. For the A'ngel of Death spread his wings... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...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 green,...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 of the foe as he passed... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - Constitutional law - 1844 - 336 pages
...of the God of Sabaoth by the Assyrian. The angel breathed upon his armed hosts, and they perished, " Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow, lay wither'cl and strown. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd... | |
 | John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 354 pages
...sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green',...That host' on the morrow lay withered and strown. 3. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast', And breathed in the face of the foe as he... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1845 - 312 pages
...sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Gallilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. S. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the /ace of the foe... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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 green,...when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...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 green,...when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. * 2 Kings, xix. 35. t A legion was divided into ten cohorts. For the Angel of... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,3 That host with their banners at sunset were seen ;...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 of the foe as he past... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - English language - 1845 - 214 pages
...sheen of the spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,...were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn is blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. 3. For the Angel of Death spread his wings... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...themselves,— Channing. 6. While this multitude of flies 7s filling all the air with melody. Wordsworth. 7. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...That host with their banners at sunset were seen. — Byron. 207. A noun is sometimes put in the nominative, even when it is not the subject of the sentence,... | |
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