 | Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.) - 1845 - 490 σελίδες
...fancy of Phidias from hearing a rhapsodist sing that famous verse of the first book of the ' Iliad :' " He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes his ambrosial curls and gives the nod," &c. .flSneas recounts that, coasting along the shores of Epirus, and casting anchor in a Chaonian port,... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 568 σελίδες
...honours of our head, Tlte nod that ratines the will divine, The faithful, fiz'd, irrevocable, sign: This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows. — He...signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Book II. riTSSlS ЛЗП) THEBSITES. The Greeks, in despair of taking Troy, resolve on returning home,... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 562 σελίδες
...honours of our head, The nod that ratifies the will divine, The faithful, fix'd, irrevocable, sigu: This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows. — He...bends his sable brows; Shakes his ambrosial curls, and give's the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god: High heaven with trembling the dread sigual... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 σελίδες
...for him; and longing dram-shops claim their customer.f Proceed, then, to his na" Shakes his imperial curls and gives the nod, The stamp of Fate and sanction of the God. High Heaven with awe the dreaded signal took, And all Olympus to its centre shook." * Se, in the Iliad, the book of... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 σελίδες
...xairat eire^oxrapTo avcutros KpaTos air" aOavaroio' fj.eyav &e\e\il-eif O\vfj.Tfov." ILIAD, i. 528. " He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes...The stamp of fate, and sanction of the God : High heav'u with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook." — PoPE. " Dixit,... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - 1849 - 516 σελίδες
...High Heaven the footstool of his feet he makes, And wide beneath him all Olympus shakes, He speaks, and awful bends his sable brows. Shakes his ambrosial...and gives the nod, The stamp of Fate and sanction of a god ; High Heaven, with trembling, the dread signal takes, And all Olympus to the centre shakes."... | |
 | George Griffin - 1850 - 372 σελίδες
...which he sought to embody the fabled god of gods. The memorable passage is thus translated by Pope : " He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes...signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook." With this boasted effusion of mythological sublimity, compare the following extracts from Job, the... | |
 | George Griffin - 1850 - 370 σελίδες
...which he sought to embody the fabled god of gods. The memorable passage is thus translated by Pope: " He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows; Shakes...signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook." With this boasted effusion of mythological sublimity, compare the following extracts from Job, the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 σελίδες
...irrevocable sign; This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vowsHe spoke, and awful l>ends his sable orows ; Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod; The...the god: High heaven with trembling the dread signal tooi, Anil all Olympus to the centre shook. Swift to the seas profound the goddess flies, Jovo to his... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1851 - 568 σελίδες
...dare even to imitate. The temple prepared for its reception seems to have been not unworthy of the 1 He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes...signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Pope's Homer's Iliad, i. 527. « " Its beauty seemed to have added somewhat even to the received religion,... | |
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He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows,* Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate and sanction of the god : High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. 
