 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...done, to see." SHAKSPEARE'S Macbeth. Here we have fifty-two words, and but two dissyllables. " For ceased, but all The multitude And their hearts beat but once, and forever lay still. And there lay the steed with his nostril all... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1851 - 328 pages
...the leaves of the forest 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...face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleeper waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still." "What instrument... | |
 | 1851 - 614 pages
...leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown ! "For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,...face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleeping waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still ! "And there... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1851 - 396 pages
...the leaves of the forest, when autumn is flown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast,—...breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the breath of the sleepers grew deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever were still.... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1851 - 236 pages
...leaves of the forest when autumn is b!6wn That hijst on the m6rrow lay wither'd and str6wn. 3. For the A'ngel of Death spread his wings on the blast,...breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; And the £yes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still.... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 340 pages
...this day sometimes envelope and destroy whole caravans. Byron has adopted this view in his lines " For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed." A tradition preserved by Herodotus, who received it from his favourite 1 Isaiah xxxvii. 36. authorities,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1851 - 336 pages
...this day sometimes envelope and destroy whole caravans. Byron has adopted this view in his lines " Tor the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed." A tradition preserved by Herodotus, who received it from his favourite i Isaiah xxxvii. 36. authorities,... | |
 | George Henry Taylor (master of the Model sch, Battersea.) - 1851 - 292 pages
...have successively encamped. Here, doubtless, took place the destruction of Sennacherib's army, when " The angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heav'd, and... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...the leaves of the forest 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 of the foe as lie passed ; And the eyes of the sleeper waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved,... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...morrow, lay wither'd and strown. For, the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breath'd on the face of the foe as he passed : And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heav'd, and for ever grew still ! And there lay the... | |
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Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the angel of Death spread his wings on the... 
