| Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1838 - 290 sider
...them, at. a blow or kick they become furious. It is the Arab horse described in the book of Job. " Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? " Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. " He paweth in... | |
| David Mushet - 1839 - 350 sider
...we not ask the proud usurper man — usurper when he tyrannizes with forbidden and unholy claims, " Hast thou given the horse strength ? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ?" Alas ! how is this creature raised so high brought low by our harshness and artifice ; ground to... | |
| Thomas Bingley - 1839 - 324 sider
...commentator, and its force and beauty can hardly fail to strike even the most inattentive reader : " Hast thou given the horse strength ? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder I Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in... | |
| David Mushet - 1839 - 358 sider
...May we not ask the proud usurper man—usurper when he tyrannizes with forbidden and unholy claims, " Hast thou given the horse strength ? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ?" Alas! how is this creature raised so high brought low by our harshness and artifice; ground to the... | |
| Nathan Covington Brooks - 1840 - 56 sider
...moveth his tail like a cedar. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron." "Hast thou given the horse strength; hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grass-hopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 372 sider
...His neck is clothed with thunder1 — and his mane Seems waving fire — the kindling of his eye 1 " Hast thou given the horse strength * Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder 1" — Job, chap, xxxix. v. 19. Is as a meteor — ardent with disdain His glance — his gesture,... | |
| James Christie Whyte - 1840 - 616 sider
...chapter, and from the l9th to the 25th verse, of the Book of Job. It is in the following words : " Hast thou given the horse strength ? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ?* " Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. * We find... | |
| Ferdinand freiherr von Geramb - 1840 - 790 sider
...oppressor would strike it off. How beautiful, how true, is the picture which Job has drawn of the horse ! " Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the... | |
| Natural history - 1840 - 180 sider
...one of extraordinary force and beauty in Virgil ; but none equal that in the inspired book of Job : " Hast thou given the horse strength ? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? " chap. xxxix. 19 ; a passage often paraphrased, hut never successfully. The description of the Horse... | |
| 1840 - 488 sider
...and reminds us of the sublime poetical description of the ancient war horse, in the book of Job : " Hast thou given the horse strength ? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in... | |
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