 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...present deity, they shout around; A present deity, the vaulted roofs rebound : With ravish'd ear» hich fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, b The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician lu Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young : The jolly god... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...sound; " A present deity ! " they shout around; " A present deity ! " the vaulted roofs rebound — With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seem to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus, ever fair... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
..." A present deity !" the vaulted roofs rebound. With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, lm|K>rt:tnC6. Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. 574. Jovial description. The praise of Bacchus, then the sweet musician sung , Of Bacchus, ever fair... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...lofty sound : A present deity ! they shout around 1 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 1 The jolly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...admire the lofty sound; A present deity, 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 lung Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young : The jolly... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...the lofty sound; A present deity, 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 aung ; Of Bacchus, ever fair and ever young. The jolly... | |
 | Royal Society of New Zealand - Science - 1908 - 710 pages
...halves of such a stanza may further be resolved into four-syllabled leonines, as — With ravished ears The monarch hears ; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. Such variations become yet more complicated when the rimes are feminine or double. A first reading... | |
 | English periodicals - 1925 - 1028 pages
...can hardly be stated except in the decorous terms of classical mythology. The fortunate artillerist Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. A far-shining figure is seen to sit above the thunder on the Napoleonic Olympus ; on his right hand... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...listening crowd admire the lofty sound, A present deity ; they shout around, » » » * With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres." Timotheus next accompanies his harp with a song " of Bacchus ever fair and ever young." He is still... | |
 | Carl Dahlhaus, Ruth Katz - 454 pages
...Talent more universally, and because these Instances must also be most universally understood. 10With ravish'd Ears The Monarch hears, Assumes the God,...seems to shake the Spheres. In which Air I am sorry to observe, that the Affectation of imitating this Nod, has reduced the Music as much below the Dignity... | |
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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... 
