| Eliza Robbins - 1851 - 318 páginas
...The faithful, fixed, irrevocable, sign ,This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows. — He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial...signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Iliad, Book 1 Virgil, the Roman poet, represents Jove's powei aver nature, with great effect, thus... | |
| Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.) - 1845 - 490 páginas
...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,... | |
| John Parkhurst - 1845 - 846 páginas
...NEY-IE KpoviW, i A' apa xairai tireppuiffaVTO SVOKTOC. He spake : and awful bends his sable brow«, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, the sanction of the god. POFK. III. To assent or content in general, annum. occ. Acts xviii. 20. And... | |
| William Peter - 1847 - 568 páginas
...The faithful, fiz'd, irrevocable, sign: This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows. — He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows; Shakes his ambrosial...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 páginas
...fulfils thy vows. — He spoke, and awful 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 took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Book II. ULTS8ES AND THEHSITES. The Greeks, in despair... | |
| George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 páginas
...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... | |
| Homer - 1849 - 582 páginas
...680 The faithful, fix'd, irrevocable sign; This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows." He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows; Shakes his ambrosial...signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Swift to the seas profound the goddess flies, Jove to his starry mansion in the skies. The shining... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 páginas
...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 his ambrosial...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 his ambrosial...signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook." With this boasted effusion of mythological sublimity, compare the following extracts from Job, the... | |
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