 | Meaghan Morris - 2006 - 270 str.
...noise warps my reading, as a restless schoolchild within me drones, 'The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold'12 - and, since boredom is catching, I prefer to work with other plateaus first. There is nothing... | |
 | M. G. Easton - 2006 - 757 str.
...of in the Assyrian annals. The scene is thus depicted by the English poet :-— " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with pnrple end gold Like the leave» of the forest when summer is That host with their banners at... | |
 | J. Edward Chamberlin - 2007 - 232 str.
...Sennacherib, celebrated by Byron in a famous poem (inspired by another passage in Isaiah): The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. A chariot attack must have been an awesome sight, and the sound too must have been overwhelming. Chariots... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - 2007 - 896 str.
...success of his military career — that most English-speaking students remember. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. . . . For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as... | |
 | 214 str.
...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 in purple and gold; And the sheen of his spears shone like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." There, that... | |
 | 214 str.
...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 in purple and gold ; And the sheen of his spears shone like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." There, that... | |
 | Neil Corcoran - 2007 - 414 str.
...most celebrated instance of this metre, Byron's 'The Destruction of Sennacherib': The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold. Byron's metre imposes itself tyrannically on speech-rhythm and identifies the poetic speaker with the... | |
 | Lee Hunt - 2008 - 372 str.
...something else there as well; an eagerness, a hunger perhaps? The Vampyr whispered, "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, / And his cohorts...on the sea, / When the blue wave rolls nightly on the Galilee." Lily turned to him. "What did you say?" "It's a poem," said Enoch Bale. "By Lord Byron.... | |
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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. 
