 | Thomas Edie Hill - 1884
...6re ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have . . swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre." " The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the . . fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold." Blank Verse. Blank verse is the name given to a kind of poetry without rhyme,... | |
 | Joseph Richard Bradway - 1885 - 52 Seiten
...history, which we will now compare with the poetical description as given by Byron, that prince of poets: "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the deep waves... | |
 | University of the State of New York. Examination Department - 1894 - 412 Seiten
...deliverer of the nations, Who shall guide you and shall teach you, Who shall toil and suffer with you. The Assyrian came down, like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave... | |
 | George Irving Reed, Emilius Oviatt Randall, Charles Theodore Greve - 1897 - 742 Seiten
...voices in Tom Moore's Melodies, or Orris Parrish wake the echoes, with a chorus from all the voices, in, "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold," and other like exhilarating songs. Speaking of Parrish, I may remark that he... | |
 | William Henry Maxwell, George James Smith, George Jay Smith - 1900 - 286 Seiten
...entertain', interfere', contradict', undertake'. The following are anaposstic lines of verse : — The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold. — BYKOX. We have already seen in scanning (that is, marking off into their... | |
 | George Pliny Brown, Charles De Garmo - 1900 - 268 Seiten
...Came to the mariner's hollo. The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot. The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts are gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, Where the... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - 452 Seiten
...of doggerel, and says it has been regarded as very good in Dutch Flat. I give a specimen verse : " The Assyrian came down like a wolf 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... | |
 | George Andrew Lewis - 1902 - 434 Seiten
...require any physical expression save that which is natural. Take the following lines from Byron: — The As-syr-ian came down like a wolf on the fold. And his co-horts were gleam-ing with pur-pie and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1904 - 732 Seiten
...— smitten by "the angel of the Lord." This is the incident commemorated by Byron's lines : — •' The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold ; Like leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host, on the morrow,... | |
 | 1905 - 648 Seiten
...panic, or sudden assault." It is said that 185,000 men perished in the valley of Hinnom. Bryon's poem, "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in puple and gold," etc, was written about this invasion and disaster. Sennacherib was murdered seventeen... | |
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