 The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes...  Punch - Page 109edited by - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...and peculiar, and an erratic fancy ? straightway he is heralded to the world as a genius, a poet ! " A present deity, they shout around : A present deity, the vaulted roofs rebound : With ravish'd ears The POET hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres." Papers... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...rode', When he to fair Olympia' . .pressed', And stamped an image of himself*, a sovereign of the worlcf A present deity*, the vaulted roofs' . . rebound*....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*.... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 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 Bacchus, ever fair and ever young! The jolly... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 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 - 830 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 - 320 pages
...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 - 900 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... | |
 | Literature - 1869 - 862 pages
...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 - 352 pages
...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,... | |
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