 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...brows; Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod ; The stamp of fate, and sanctio , of the pod : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre sb"ok. Swift to the seas profound the goddess flies, Jove to his starry mansion in the skies. The shining... | |
 | Frederick Nolan - 1810 - 396 pages
...Shakes his ambrosial curls and gives the nod ; The stamp of fate, and sanction of the God: High heav'n with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. POPK. II. i. 682 6. f Celestial states, immortal Gods ! give ear, Hear our decree, and rev'rence what... | |
 | Greek literature - 1813 - 350 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1813 - 296 pages
...his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial enrls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanetion of a God ; High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to its eentre shook. The image is expanded, and attempted to be beautiful ; but in reality it is weakened.... | |
 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1815 - 314 pages
...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...signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Pope. I took occasion, in a former letter, to make some exceptions to a passage or two in the parting... | |
 | 1815 - 930 pages
...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 profound the Goddess flies,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...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 all Olympus to its centre shook. The image is expanded, and attempted to be beautified ; but in reality it is weakened.... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pages
...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' Blank verse, by its boldness, freedom, and variety, is much more favourable than... | |
 | Boston Latin School (Mass.) - Education - 1820 - 378 pages
...and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, the sanction of the god. High heaven, with trembling,...signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.* A rich curtain of cloth of the deepest Phenician purple, wrought with Assyrian embroidery in gold,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1823 - 402 pages
...fight, which shews that if he had as high an opinion of them as he had of him, at whose nod " Great heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook, he would have been more sparing of celestial agency. But though Ariosto's heroes are of a more ideal... | |
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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. 
