 | Stephen Fry - 2006 - 396 頁
...AND MARK THE ANAPAESTS HERE (Assyrian is three syllables, by the way, not four): The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen on their spears was like stars on the sea, And the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Byron doesn't... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - 2007 - 896 頁
...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... | |
 | J. Edward Chamberlin - 2007 - 232 頁
...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... | |
 | Neil Corcoran - 2007 - 414 頁
...O'Brien uses it to a very different effect from the most celebrated instance of this metre, Byron's 'The Destruction of Sennacherib': The Assyrian came...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... | |
 | 214 頁
...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 頁
...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... | |
 | Lee Hunt - 2008 - 372 頁
...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. 
