 | Peter Warren Dease - 2002 - 372 str.
...badly garbled quotation from Lord Byron s "The Destruction of Sennacherib." Byron's version reads: Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,...when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. I am glad to hear that, notwithstanding the failure of your fishery, you had still... | |
 | John Phillips - 2001 - 742 str.
...its towering ramparts. Lord Byron has caught the beat and march of the event: And the Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls nighdy on deep Galilee. Hezekiah first sought appeasement by paying enormous tribute to buy the invader... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 2003 - 406 str.
...about the invasion of the Israelites' ruthless enemy and their defeat by the Lord: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars in the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.99 One of Sam's childhood exposures to... | |
 | Lester L. Grabbe - 2003 - 370 str.
...agreed facts about the past. THIS Is WHAT HAPPENS. . . Philip R. Davies The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustam This is what happens when little kings get too ambitious. The big... | |
 | A. H. Weatherley - 2003 - 276 str.
...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 - 254 str.
...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 - 328 str.
...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... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 2004 - 318 str.
...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,...sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest, when autirmn hath blown, That host on the morrow, lay wither'd and strown. And there lay the steed with... | |
 | Andrew Michael Arnold - 2004 - 348 str.
...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... | |
 | Charles S. Maier - 2006 - 396 str.
...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... | |
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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. 
