 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Liczba stron: 692
...slender waist he curl'd, "' And stamp'd an image of himself, a sov'reign of the world. The list'niog ] > 9? 㒐4 9 8 * 4 ., B2 5 l ƃ <n ` ³ Fm... gWL ݫ6VWLL $M@Dd X G?T + L \ G.r e 7j H \ o콖w g praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sun; Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young: The jolly god... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - Liczba stron: 900
...to fair Olympia pressed, And stamped an image of himself, a sovereign of the world ! The listening crowd admire the lofty sound : " A present deity !"...present deity !" the vaulted roofs rebound. — With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres !... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - Liczba stron: 614
...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 (••.•!'•... | |
 | Edward Young - 1844 - Liczba stron: 352
...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 - Liczba stron: 604
...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... | |
 | 1925 - Liczba stron: 1028
...can hardly be stated except in the decorous terms of classical mythology. The fortunate artillerist Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. A far-shining figure is seen to sit above the thunder on the Napoleonic Olympus ; on his right hand... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - Liczba stron: 468
...listening crowd admire the lofty sound, A present deity ; they shout around, » » » * With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres." Timotheus next accompanies his harp with a song " of Bacchus ever fair and ever young." He is still... | |
 | Carl Dahlhaus, Ruth Katz - Liczba stron: 454
...Talent more universally, and because these Instances must also be most universally understood. 10With ravish'd Ears The Monarch hears, Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the Spheres. In which Air I am sorry to observe, that the Affectation of imitating this Nod, has reduced the Music... | |
 | Andreas Fischer - 1994 - Liczba stron: 276
...beginning of the succeeding line as in the already quoted example from Dryden's Alexander's Feast (34-36): The list'ning crowd admire the lofty sound; "A present...around; "A present deity." the vaulted roofs rebound. In the poetry of Pope we also find examples for this, as in his Pastorals ("Autumn" 49-50; Pope's italics),... | |
 | Enrico Fubini - 1994 - Liczba stron: 436
...this Talent more universally, and because these Instances must also be most universally understood. 9. With ravish'd Ears, The Monarch hears, Assumes the...God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the Spheres. In which Air I am sorry to observe, that the Affectation of imitating this Nod, has reduced the Music... | |
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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! 
