...we always feel in a personal narrative, perhaps above every other species of composition. We fbel, that however long ago, or however remote the actor...forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lav wither'd and strown. " For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the...

...stings for evermore The soul that must endure it THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...when Autumn hath 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...

...Gibbon. " Africa, as well as Gaul, was gradually fashioned to the imitation of the capital." — Ibid. "Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...That host with their banners, at sunset were seen." — Byron. " The almost unobserved advancement and diffusion of knowledge were paving the way for discoveries."...

...what motion moved the clouds! (from Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book 1, line 330ff) The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. . . (from Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib') The metre here determines the rhythm. It is anapaestic,...

...day. 2 Anapest, or anapestic foot: two unstressed syllahles followed hy one stressed syllahle (™') And the sheen | of their spears | was like stars | on the sea. 3 Trochee, or trochaic foot: a stressed syllahle followed hy an unstressed syllahle ( ") There they...

...in his stead. The Destruction of Sennacherib -*•> GEORGE NOEL GORDON, LORD BYRON The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...when autumn hath 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...

...these famous lines by the nineteenth-century English poet Lord Byron: "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." The Assyrians took their name from the god Ashur, worshiped along with his female counterpart Ishtar...

...Jehovah went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and four score and five thousand." " Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green,...when autumn hath 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...

...first two verses: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the foal, And his cohorts were gleaming of purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was...Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, The host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,...

...the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, The host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, The host on the morrow lay withered and thrown. (180) Only in the first two lines of verse 6 does Byron's...