 | Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1834 - 408 páginas
...that distance of time. " By the rivers of Babylon we fat down ; yea, we wept when we remembered Zum. We hanged our harps upon the willows, in the midst...that carried us away captive, required of us a song, saying, sing us one of the songs of Zion." As a man would say to an American, or to a Frenchman, or... | |
 | 1834 - 550 páginas
...reminded us of the pathetic lament of the Hebrew exiles :-—• " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." ' It was, indeed, an affecting sight, to look round on our little band of Scottish emigrants, thus... | |
 | 1834 - 506 páginas
...in the hundred and thirtyseventh Psalm, verses 1, 2. " By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." LINES TO A BOWER. ONCK more I visit thee, my bower ; Nor dream of grandeur, fame, nor power, Calm haunt... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1834 - 636 páginas
...reminded us of the pathetic lament of the Hebrew exiles: — " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat ; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." ' It was, indeed, an affecting sight, to look round on our little band of Scottish emigrants, thus... | |
 | John Martin - 1834 - 596 páginas
...the Psalmist, which gives a sanctity to its name:— " ' By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.'—Ps. cxxxvii." Only fifty copies were printed. The frontispiece represents Johnson's Willow,... | |
 | Morris Jacob Raphall - 1835 - 440 páginas
...countenance a melancholy cast, and reflective expression. " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down ; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our...the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not... | |
 | 1835 - 444 páginas
...remember the pathetic language of the cxxxvii Psalm, " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down; yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.'' By " the rivers of Babylon" were meant the streams of the Euphrates; and a Turkey merchant named Vernon,... | |
 | Thomas Pringle, Josiah Conder - 1835 - 716 páginas
...reminded us of the pathetic lament of the Hebrew exiles :—" By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; yea we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." It was, indeed, an affecting sight to look round on our little baud of Scottish emigrants, thus congregated... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 páginas
...the children of Israel lamented their captivity : — " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion : we hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. • The wicker-baskets made by our forefathers are the subject of an epigram by Martial : — " From... | |
 | Richard Westall, John Martin - 1835 - 208 páginas
...privations of captivity. " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when weremembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof."* They had no longer a tabernacle ; their harps, with which, in their own happy Palestine, the land of... | |
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BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth,... 
