 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.  Essay on the Principles of Translation - Page 122by Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1813 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1813 - 352 pages
...divine, The faithful, fix'd, irrevocable sign ; This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows — ' He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes...The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Swift to the seas... | |
 | William Melmoth - 1815 - 314 pages
...the benefit of so animating a mode', Mr. Pope has preserved it to them in all its original majesty ; He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes...The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Pope. I took occasion,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pages
...shook the celestial "locks of his immortal head, all Olympus was shaken." Mr. Pope translates it thus : He spoke : and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes...gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of a God. High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to its centre shook. The image... | |
 | 1815 - 930 pages
...are mere successfully copied in the blink vwse translation. " He spoke : and awful bends his sable Shakes his ambrosial curls and gives the nod, The stamp of fate and sanction of the. God : High heaven with trembling the dicad sigDul took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. * Swift to the seas... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 300 pages
...shook the celestial locks of his immortal head, all Olympus was shaken." Mr. Pope translates it thus ; He spoke ; and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod l The stamp of fate, and sanction of a God ; High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 pages
...atntrit TT @poi7iot,\ o' a.ea, ^ K.PCLTOI; air aOayaToto ^ya-v 0 .ea, ^ara* tiripp ILIAD, i. 528. ' He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes...god : High heav'n with trembling the dread signal touk, And all Olympus to the centre shook.' POPE. ' Dixit : et avertem rose& cervice refulsil, Ambj... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pages
...to beautify it; but, in reality, weakens it. " He spoke ; and awful bends his sable brows, Shrikes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of a god. High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, •• And all Olympus to its centre shook.1'... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...the celestial locks of his *' immortal head, all Olympus was shaken." Mr. Pope translates it thus: He spoke ; and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes...gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of a God. High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to its centre shook. The image... | |
 | Boston Latin School (Mass.) - 1820 - 378 pages
...Phidias replied, by quoting from the first book of the Iliad, the lines which Pope has thus translated. He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes...ambrosial curls and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, the sanction of the god. High heaven, with trembling, the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the... | |
 | 1821 - 336 pages
...the benefit of so animating a model, Mr. Pope has preserved it to them in all its original majesty ; He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes...The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heaven with trembling the dread signal took. And all Olympus to the centre shook. — Pope, I took... | |
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