 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1876 - 540 pages
...locks, And all Olympus trembled at his nod.' Or, as Pope has it, perhaps for once more nobly — ' High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.' The Israelitish singers had expressed this thought of God's power and truth differently : ' Let all... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1876 - 542 pages
...ambrosial locks, And all Olympus trembled at his nod.' Or, as Pope has it, perhaps for once more nobly— ' High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.' The Israelitish singers had expressed this thought of God's power and truth differently: ' Let all... | |
 | Homer - 1877 - 558 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 trembling the dread signal took, And alt Olympus to the centre sJiook. Swift to the seas profound the goddess flies, Jove to his starry... | |
 | Wilhelm Lübke - Sculpture - 1878 - 432 pages
...He spoke, and awful bends his sable brow ; 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." Our knowledge of this perished work is exclusively based on C°Coin7 a few coins from Elis, which,... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - Conduct of life - 1878 - 480 pages
...mouarchthunderer among the gods of Mount Olympus. Whenever he did but give his nod (so Homer assures us), "High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the center shook." Now the entire foregoing account is in harmony with the supposition, nay, with the belief,... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1880 - 530 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...trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the center shook." The head given on page 188 is from a feeble copy of the original, executed in the Roman... | |
 | Ernst Eckstein - Rome - 1882 - 318 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. Phidias' Zeus was represented seated on a throne ; his left hand held the sceptre, his right... | |
 | Homer - 1883 - 524 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. f Swift to the seas profound the goddess flies, Jove to his starry mansions in the skies. The shining... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Animals - 1886 - 256 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." 1 — Iliad, Book I. lines 683-87. malaria and fever. A Dutch physician, named Foersch, published in... | |
 | Clara Erskine Clement Waters - Art - 1887 - 386 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." Among the pupils of Phidias was Alcamenes, a distinguished sculptor. It is said that he contended with... | |
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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. 
