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 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 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. CHORUS.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...sought her snowy hreast : Then, round her slender waist he curl'd, And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the world. The listening crowd admire...shout around : A present deity, the vaulted roofs rehound : With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...When he to fair Olympia' . .pressed', And stamped an image of himself*, a sovereign of the world1. A present deity* the vaulted roofs' . . rebound*....monarch hears" ; Assumes the god* ; affects to nod' j And seems to shake the spheres*. The praise of Bacchus*, then', the sweet musician sung* ; Of Bacchus',... | |
 | Juvenal - 1839 - 316 pages
...received ; he will believe every thing that can be said in his praise, and grow still the vainer for it. With ravished ears The monarch hears ; Assumes the...god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. ' 72. Bat — a size, <Jc.] They had no pot capacious enough, in its dimensions, to contain this large... | |
 | Juvenal - Verse satire, Latin - 1839 - 570 pages
...Diocletian, Antiochus, and many eastern sovereigns (Curt. viii. 5.), Alexander of Macedou (JuBt. si. xii. " With ravished ears The monarch hears; Assumes the...God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres;" D, Alex. Feast. M.). Domitian styled himself Dominus et Deut; Suet. 13. Mart. V. viii. 1. cf. Eutr.... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 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. The... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 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. The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 pages
...to fair Olympia press'd ; And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the world. With ravish' d ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. III. The praise of Bacchus then, the sweet musician sung ; Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, Charles Fox - English language - 1841 - 290 pages
...of other measure, but is not used alone. 195. Second form of the Iambic consisting of two Iambuses. With ravished ears The monarch hears. Assumes the god Affects to nod. : * These happy adaptations of the sound to the sense will probably remind, the classical student of... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Then, round her slender waist he curl'd, [world And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the rea roou rebound : With ravisli'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Aflects to nod. And seems to... | |
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