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Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... - Page 164
by Hugh Murray - 1805 - 174 pages
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric

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...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

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...gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heav'n with trembling the dread signal touk, And all Olympus to the centre shook.' POPE....
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 11

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'...
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Lectures on rhetoric &c

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...
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The Prize Book: Of the Publick Latin School in Boston, Issue 1

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...
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The British Prose Writers...: Fitzosborne's letters

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...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. —...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetorick

Hugh Blair - 1822 - 272 pages
...of his immortal head, all Olympus was shaken." Mr. Pope translates it thus ; He spoke : and awf al bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls,...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...
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The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1

Homerus - 1822 - 320 pages
...honours of our head, The nod that ratifies the will divine, The faithful, fix'd, irrevocable sign; This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows —...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...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 312 pages
...honours of our head, The nod that ratifies the will divine, The faithful, fix'd, irrevocable sign ; This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows —...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. Swift...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 pages
...£gj° ^atraI EVEppvravTo ayaXTO; Kfarof a?r' adayaroio* fjtsyai S" iXiXi^Ey 'OXujunw. ILIAD, i. 528. He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes...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. —...
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