 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...his sable brows, Shakes 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. The image is spread out and attempted to be beautified; but it is, in truth, weakened.... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 336 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 304 pages
...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... | |
 | Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god: 56 THE ILIAD. JSookl. High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took,, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Swift to the seas profound the goddess flies, Jove to his starry mansions in the skies. The shining... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 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. rora. Dirit : el arerteni rosed cervice refulat, Ambrositzque comas divinum rertice odorcm S}rirav£re... | |
 | François Pomey - Mythology, Classical - 1823 - 370 pages
...spake ; 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. — Homer. All heaven is represented as shaken with his terrors, and neither men nor gods had the temerity... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 398 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. Dixit: et avertms rosed cenice refukit, Ambrosi&que comce divinvm vertice odorem Spiravere :... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 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. — POPE. Dixit: et avertens rosea cervice refulsit, Ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem Spiravere... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 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. — PoPE. Dixit : et avertens rosea cervice refulsit, Ambrosiaeque comae divinnm vertice odorem Spiravere... | |
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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. 
