 | A. H. Weatherley - 2003 - 276 páginas
...A fragment of poetry from my schooldays kept popping up in my mind? "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." an hour like a bat out of Hell. I knew by then that I was not going to be able to run down all of the... | |
 | Lester L. Grabbe - 2003 - 370 páginas
...McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998). THIS Is WHAT HAPPENS. . . Philip R. Davies The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustam This is what happens when little kings get too ambitious. The big... | |
 | Neil Astley - 2003 - 500 páginas
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 | Edward Leeson - 2004 - 728 páginas
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 | Duncan B. Forrester, James Ian H. McDonald, Gian Tellini - 2004 - 254 páginas
...conquest: on its conquest and subjugation of Northern Israel (Jonah's country), when The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. (Byron) The result: the destruction of the country, the ruin of a culture and religion, the dismembering... | |
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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. 
