 ... commencement — the picturesque description of the state of the country — the mustering of the troops from all quarters — the sudden transition to the most contemptuous sarcasm against the tribes that stood aloof— the life, fire, and energy...  Women of the Century - Page 25by Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1876 - 648 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1829 - 350 pages
...that stood aloof — the life, fire, and energy of the battle — the bitter pathos of the close — lyric poetry has nothing in any language which can...boldness and animation of this striking production. But this hymn has great historic as well as poetic value. It is the only description of the relation... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1840 - 468 pages
...stood aloof, — the life, fire, and energy of the battle, — the bitter pathos of the close, — lyric poetry has nothing, in any language, which can...boldness and animation of this striking production." " Thus sang Deborah and Barak, son of Abinoam, In the day of victory thus they sang ; That Israel hath... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1840 - 468 pages
...stood aloof, — the life, fire, and energy of the battle, — the bitter pathos of the close, — lyric poetry has nothing, in any language, which can...boldness and animation of this striking production." " Thus sang Deborah and Barak, son of Abinoam, In the day of victory thus they sang; That Israel hath... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1840 - 468 pages
...stood aloof, — the life, fire, and energy of the battle, — the bitter pathos of the close, — lyric poetry has nothing, in any language, which can...boldness and animation of this striking production." " Thus sang Deborah and Barak, son of Abinoam, In the day of victory thus they sang; That Israel hath... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1843 - 302 pages
...that stood aloof— the life, fire, and energy of the battle- — the bitter pathos of the close — lyric poetry has nothing in any language which can...boldness and animation of this striking production. But this hymn has great historic as well as poetic value. It is the only description of the relation... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1864 - 524 pages
...that stood aloof — the life, fire, and energy of the battle — the bitter pathos of the close — lyric poetry has nothing in any language which can...boldness and animation of this striking production. But this hymn has great historic as well as poetic value. It is the only description of the relation... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1866 - 526 pages
...that stood aloof— the life, fire, and energy of the battle—the bitter pathos of the close—lyric poetry has nothing in any language which can surpass the boldness and animation of this 1. On the scene and local circumstances of this battle, Stanley, p. 331. striking production. But this... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1870 - 528 pages
...that stood aloof — the life, fire, and energy of the battle — the bitter pathos of the close — lyric poetry has nothing in any language which can...boldness and animation of this striking production. But this hymn has great historic as well as poetic value. It is the only description of the relation... | |
 | Tales - 1871 - 242 pages
...the grandest ever written. A well-known historian of the Jews, himself no mean poet, says of it — " Lyric poetry has nothing in any language which can...boldness and animation of this striking production," (Milman's History of the Jews, vol. I., p. 246.) Such was the deliverer divinely raised up at this... | |
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