 Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, That the Angel of Death might see the sign, and pass over. Motionless, senseless, dying, he lay, and his spirit exhausted Seemed to be sinking down through infinite depths in the darkness, Darkness of slumber...  Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie - Page 158by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 163 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, That the Angel of Death might see the sign and pass over." This is a temperance in passion, not acquired or begotten, but innate and "from the purpose." One would... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, That the Angel of Death might see the sign, and pass...spirit exhausted Seemed to be sinking down through in6nite depths in the darkness, Darkness of slumber and death, for ever sinking and sinking. Then through... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1850 - 560 pages
...burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, That the Angel of Death might see the sign and pass over." We could laugh at all these conceits, if they did not contain glimmerings of a fine fancy run mad,... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, That the Angel of death might see the sign, and pass...dying he lay, and his spirit exhausted Seemed to be slaking down through Infinite depths in the darkness, Darkness of clumber and death, for ever sinking... | |
 | 1852 - 528 pages
...burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, That the angel of death might see the sign and pass...dying, he lay, and his spirit exhausted Seemed to he sinking down through infinite depths in the darkness — • Darkness of slumber and death — for... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled the portals, That the angel of death might see the sign, and pass over." This, if it can be called an illustration at all, is an illustration " by contraries," seing that,... | |
 | 1853 - 538 pages
...burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, That the Angel of Death might see the sign, and pass over.§§ This penchant for Scripture similitudes would have made the poet dear, two centuries ago, to the lovers... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 518 pages
...burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, That the Angel of Death might see the sign, and pass over.§§ This penchant for Scripture similitudes would have made the poet dear, two centuries ago, to the lovers... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, That the Angel of death might see the sign and pass...Heard he that cry of pain, and through the hush that sueceeded Whispered a gentle voice, in aecents tender and saintlike, " Gabriel ! O my beloved !" and... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 1416 pages
...borned the flush of the fever, A* if life, like Uie Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, That the Angel of death might see the sign, and pass...senseless, dying he lay, and his spirit exhausted to be sinking down through infinite depths in the darknesa, ss of slumber and death, for ever shaking... | |
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