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...and find eternal rest ! LESSON LII. Tfic Destruction of Scnnaclicrib. — BYRON. THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen;...

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..."-Africa, as well as Gaul, was gradually fashioned to the imitation of the capital." — Ibid. " Lake 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 pacing the way for discoveries."...

...Assyrian power, and it shook the empire, when its might was most colossal, to its foundations. Likethe leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen. J,ike the leavis of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That hcet or> the morrow lay witheredand strown....

...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 the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen...

...poetic genius it becomes one of the most magnificent pictures in all literature. " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. " Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen...

...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."...

...Sennacherib I have heard." That same night the utter ruin of the Syrian army was accomplished. Lake the leaves of the forest, when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset are seen ; Like the leaves of the forest, when autumn is flown, That host on the morrow lay withered...

...points; thus the glittering of drawn swords is properly termed sheen.—Cf. Byron's Hebrew Melodies: " And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea." The appearance of moonlight, broken by the shadows of a woodland landscape, may therefore not inaptly...