Scenes in Palestine; or, dramatic sketches from the Bible. To which is added the Fair Avenger; or the Destroyer destroyed, an academic drama [in four acts and in verse].William Cole, 1825 - 201 pages |
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Abel ABSALOM ACHIOR ADONA AHINADAB AHITHOPHEL altar amid ARBONA arms art thou Assyrian BAGOAS banners BASHEMATH beams beauty behold beneath blest blood Boaz bowers bright brows CAIN CAIN AND ABEL camp chief clouds crown dark death dost doth dreadful dwell earth ELISHAMA ESRAHADON Exit fair fear fierce fire flame fling flocks flood flowers frankincense gates gems glory gold golden golden ears groves harp hast hath hear heart heaven Hebrew hills HOLOFERNES host Israel Jacob JAPHIA Jericho JOAB Jordan JUDITH king lacteal land light lips lord mighty Moab moon morn mountain NAOMI numbers o'er ORPAH OZIAS pillar pomp priests prince proud purple RACHEL radiant renown rich rose Ruth sacred SANBASSARUS SCENE Shallumah shalt shout smiles soft Solomon song star steeds streams sweet sword temple thee THIRZA throne towers voice warrior waves wild winds worship wrath ye men yonder Zillah Zion's
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Page 73 - earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered-. and all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Page 35 - And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan ; and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
Page 18 - Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great sun begins his state, Bob'd in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries
Page 18 - in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight. While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk -maid singeth blithe, And the mower
Page 83 - rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
Page 35 - the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before
Page 103 - And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
Page 196 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand,
Page 195 - Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats; in these were they thy merchants. " The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they -were thy merchants
Page 53 - So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, which returned out of the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley-harvest.