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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. "
Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... - Page 164
by Hugh Murray - 1805 - 174 pages
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 pages
...first JEneid. a£et ^CLITAI Eftf ppwdttvro avaXTOf ' p.iya.1 $' lxl&i£cv "OXvjwrw. 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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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1823 - 320 pages
...the celestial locks of his immortal head, all Olympus was shaken. Mr. Pope translates it thus : lie spoke ; and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his...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 boldness,...
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Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods, and Illustrious Heroes: Revised for a ...

François Pomey - 1823 - 370 pages
...High heav'n the footstool for his feet he makes, And wide beneath him, all Olympus shakes. He spake ; and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial...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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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 19

1823 - 936 pages
...resentment. It is thus that Homer paints Jupiter shaking Olympus by the motion of his hair and liis eyebrows. | \ -, YεPK c4V u e /!e0 a0 iA ¯ :A H A 7jÊ [M#\p the god. Jupiter is not always rxhibitcd in this tranquil state. In a bas-relief belonging to the marquis...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 8

1824 - 268 pages
...Kvcttwrtt nr epptifi nevgs K.pomav ia.1 £' O.QO, %ttiTctt fn-iggae-avTa *».-.:» 705, II. I. iv 528. He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, .Shakes...gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god: tligh heav'n with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Pops....
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An epitome of the history, laws, and religion of Greece

Thomas Stackhouse - 1824 - 316 pages
...footstool of his feet he makes, And wide beneath him all Olympus shakes; He speaks, and awful bends bis 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 takes, And all Olympus to the centre shakes."...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair - 1824 - 510 pages
...shook the celestial locks of bis 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 nodt The stamp of fate, and sanction of a £od. High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 32

1825 - 396 pages
...of the celebrated passage, II. A. 528. ''H, xal xuotveyariv \nc S<ppv<ri veuers Kpovltov, x. T. A,. 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 symbol took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.1 The...
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The Works of Virgil

Virgil, William Staughton - 1825 - 706 pages
...tremefecit Olympum ; in imitation of Humer, II. I. He spoke, and awful bends bis sable brows, Shakes bis ambrosial curls, and gives the nod ; The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. Pope's Iliad. So that annuii here is to be taken in its strict primary sense, He gave his...
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The Iliad of Homer: Books I-XII

Homer - 1825 - 298 pages
...honours of our head, The nod that ratifies the will divine, 1 The faithful, fix'd, irrevocahle sign ; This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows — He spoke, and awful hends his sahle hrows ; Shakes his amhrosial curls, and gives the nod I The stamp of fate, and sanction...
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