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 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 807 pages
...Then, round her slender waist he curl'd, [world And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the The listening crowd admire the lofty sound, A present...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.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 807 pages
...Then, round her slender waist he curl'd, [world And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the ther than thou seem'st) ' Man lives not by bread only,...from the mouth of God, who fed Our fathers here wi ravish 'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god. Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843
...Olympia 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. The... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 504 pages
...Sublime on radiant spheres he rode, When he to fair Olympia pressed, And stamped an image of himself, a sovereign of the world ! The listening crowd admire...god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres ! The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician sung, Of Bitchus, ever fair and ever young ! The... | |
 | 1869
...to large masses — to a party, to classes, to a ale ; whereas his generosity is for manat large. He assumes the god. affects to nod, and seems to shake the spheres. But I have nothing to say against him. He has asked me hero to-night, and has talked to me most familiarly."... | |
 | Edward Young - 1844
...most happily to the variety of the occasion. Those by which he has chosen to express majesty, (viz.) Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres, are chosen in the following ode, because the subject of it is great. For the more harmony likewise,... | |
 | 1856
...to write ; and as the future to his gaze appears not less brilliant than the past, wnat wonder he " assumes the god, affects to nod, and seems to shake the spheres !" Alexandre Dumas, having attained his literary majority, and through the one and twenty years of... | |
 | 1844
...ambitious preface, in which the translator appears not unwilling to usurp ill. honors of old Ossian — Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The courtesy of Miss Macpherson throw oj»-:; to us some new information relative to the (••.•!'•... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 320 pages
...rode, When he, to fair Olympia pressed, [the world. And stamped an image of himself, a sovereign of The listening crowd — admire the lofty sound : A...god, affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician Of Bacchus, ever fair, and ever young. [sung, The jolly... | |
 | General reciter - 1845
...sought her snowy breast : Then round her slender waist he curled, And stamped an image of himself, a sovereign of the world. The listening crowd admire...ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects the nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus then, the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus... | |
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