"Victorious arms thro' Ammon's land it bore,
Ruin behind, and terror march'd before."
Davideidos, lib. iv. p. 135.
Wakefield mentions some parallel passages, but omits the best of all:
"A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; Yea, and nothing shall escape them."—Joel, ii. 3.
In the "Ode on the Installation" Gray says:
"Their tears, their little triumphs o'er
Their human passions now no more."
Wakefield dwells enraptured on the expression human passions. Cowley speaks of "humana quies" (Davideidos, lib. i. p. 3.). Horace says:
"—— Carminibus quæ versant atque venenis