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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... "
Punch - Page 109
edited by - 1892
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The English Metropolis, Or, London in the Year 1820: Containing Satirical ...

John Corry - London (England) - 1820 - 328 pages
...all the momentary, nay, frantic elevation which exalted ALEXANDER into a demi-god. " With ravish'd ears, The Monarch hears ; Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres." The amusements of several persons of quality, the ostentatious display of their equipages in the royal...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...sound ; A present deky, 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...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 4

Great Britain - 1820 - 494 pages
...a cuckold? Why, he encourages the delusion, and seems to think it a very good joke : With ravish'd ears, The monarch hears ; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. " I told you at first my good friends," he was accustomed to add, " that this was a mere drunken bout...
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The Annual biography and obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 482 pages
...a cuckold? Why, he encourages the delusion, and seems to think it a very good joke : With ravish'd ears, The monarch hears ; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. " I told you at first my good friends," he was accustomed to add, " that this was a mere drunken bout...
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Sermons Preached at the Annual Election

1820 - 590 pages
...of importance. They will be affected, as Alexander was by the music of Timotheus. With ravished can The Monarch hears, Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. These stories are diligently told ; they are considered as certain proofs of clerical domination ;...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the 'world. The list'nmg crowd admire the lofty sound i A present deity, they shout around'; A present deity ; the vaulted roofs rebound. With ravish'U ears the monarch hears, • Assumes the god. affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres....
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 3

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...sought her snowy breast : Then, round her slender waist he curl'd, And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the world. The listening crowd admire...: A present deity the vaulted roofs rebound : With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, A Beets to nod, And seems to shake the sphere*. CHORUS....
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...sought her snowy breast ; Then, round her slender waist he curl'd, And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the world. — The listening crowd admire...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....
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...: 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. CHORUS. With raisishd ears, The monarch hears ; Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake...
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The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South, Volumes 1-2

1822 - 628 pages
...loyalty's quick pants in its monarch's arms — all eyes drink up the sight, all tongues reverberate the sound — • " A present deity they shout around, A present deity the vaulted roofs lebound !" What does it all amount to ? A shew — ;i theatrical spectacle ! What does it prove ? That...
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