...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 tears The monarch hears ; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres....

...the patron who suffers himself to be exalted almost into the throne of omnipotence, — where he " Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres." Happily, these lords of the creation have no existence at present. —English noblemen are too enlightened...

...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 sung Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young : *' The jolly...

...any little nonsense in that quarter, instantly conceives it to be Wisdom herself, and forthwith he " assumes the god, affects to nod, and seems to shake the spheres." Jobanna Southeote, in her seventieth year, observing that her zone or her apron string, whichever it...

...he sought her snowy breast, Around her slender waist he cu rl'd, And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the world! The listening crowd admire...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....

...press'd, ***** * # * * * . And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the world. The list'ning crowd admire the lofty sound ; A present deity, they...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....

...almost mad with pride, at hearing himself celebrated as the son of Jupiter by Olympia. With tmiih'il can The monarch hears ; Assumes the god, Affects to nod. And seems to shake the spheres. 72. But—a a»e, ¿fc.] They had no pot capacious enough, in its dimensions, to contain this large...

...mad with pride, at hearing himself celebrated as the son of Jupiter by Olympia. With ravish'd eart The monarch hears ; Assumes the god. Affects to nod, And seems to shahe the sphere». 72. But — a she, ¿1-c.] They had no pot capacious enough, in its dimensions,...

...give themselves airs of importance. They will be affected, as Alexander was by the music of Timolheus. With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the...god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. These »lories are diligently told; they are considered as certain proofs of clerical domination ;...

...hardship, and anon falls into paroxysms of fury, as if the foundations of the world were struck at ; Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. This is ever its magisterial port. Remote ages are invoked, and names of renown among the quick and...