 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
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...what none dare refuse, — the passive obedience and trembling homage of all the minor divinities, " Shakes his ambrosial Curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, the sanction of a god !" State affairs have for several years monopolized the attention pf Mr. M'Duffie.... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1851 - 318 pages
...divine ; The faithful, fixed, 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. Iliad, Book 1 Virgil,... | |
 | Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.) - 1845 - 490 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Parkhurst - 1845 - 846 pages
...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 pages
...divine, The faithful, fiz'd, irrevocable, sign: This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows. — He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows; Shakes...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. Book II. riTSSlS... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 562 pages
...divine, The faithful, fix'd, irrevocable, sigu: This seals thy suit, and this 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... | |
 | Homer - 1849 - 582 pages
...divine, — 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...' 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... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 pages
...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 pages
...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."... | |
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