 The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes ! Sound the trumpets, beat the...  Poems - Page 22by Joseph Addison - 1810 - 597 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...fair Olympia pressed, And stamped an image of himself, a sovereign of the world ! The listening crowd admire the lofty sound : " A present deity !" they...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 - 614 pages
...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 (••.•!'•... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | American literature - 1856 - 606 pages
...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1925 - 1028 pages
...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 - 468 pages
...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 - 454 pages
...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... | |
 | Enrico Fubini - Music - 1994 - 436 pages
...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... | |
 | Andreas Fischer - English language - 1994 - 276 pages
...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 deity," they shout...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),... | |
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