The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young. The jolly god in triumph comes ; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums ; Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath ; he comes,... The Poetical Works of Edward Young - Page 155by Edward Young - 1844Full view - About this book
| John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...they shout around : A present Deity, the vaulted roofs rebound, With ravish'd ears The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. CHORUS. " With ravish'd ears " The monarch hears; " Assumes the god, to nod, I to shake 1 Bacchus th'... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 566 pages
...they shout around ; A present deity ! the vaulted roofs rebound. With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres." The magnificence of this scene is contrasted with the revelry of the joys of Bacchus. The measure also... | |
| George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...they shout around, A present deity' the vaulted roofs rebound. With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god. Affects to nod. And seems to shake the spheres. But when he comes to sing the jovial god of wine, he very judiciously changes the measure into the... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...they shout around : A present deity, the vaulted roofs rehound t With ravish'U ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician suug , Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young : The jolly... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...they shout around: A present deity, the vaulted roofs rebound : With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician sung ; Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young : The jolly... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...they shout around : A present deity, the vaulted roofs rebound: With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician sung; Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young: The jolly... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...they shout around : A present Deity, the vaulted roofs rebound.With ravish'd ears The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres, CHORUS, " With ravish'd ears " The monarch hears; " Assumes the god, " Affects to nod, " And seems... | |
| Juvenal - 1807 - 390 pages
...hearing himself celebrated as the son of Jupiter by Olympia. > With ravish'd ears The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. 72. But—a size, Sfc.] They had no pot capacious enough, in its dimensions, to contain this large... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. CHORUS. With ravished ears, The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician sung ; Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young. The jolly... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...shout around ; A present deity ! the vaulted roofs rebound. With ravished ears, The monarch hears ; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. CHORUS. With ravished ears, The monarch hears ; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake... | |
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