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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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Racine and the French classical drama

Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.) - 1845 - 490 pages
...fancy of Phidias from hearing a rhapsodist sing that famous verse of the first book of the ' Iliad :' " He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows ; Shakes his ambrosial curls and gives the nod," &c. .flSneas recounts that, coasting along the shores of Epirus, and casting anchor in a Chaonian port,...
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A Greek and English lexicon to the New Testament. To this is prefixed a ...

John Parkhurst - 1845 - 844 pages
...NEY-IE KpoviW, i A' apa xairai tireppuiffaVTO SVOKTOC. He spake : and awful bends his sable brow«, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, the sanction of the god. POFK. III. To assent or content in general, annum. occ. Acts xviii. 20. And...
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Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome

William Peter - 1847 - 568 pages
...honours of our head, Tlte nod that ratines the will divine, The faithful, fiz'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. Book...
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Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome

William Peter - 1847 - 562 pages
...honours of our head, The nod that ratifies the will divine, The faithful, fix'd, irrevocable, sigu: This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows. —...bends his sable brows; Shakes his ambrosial curls, and give's the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god: High heaven with trembling the dread sigual...
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The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art ..., Volume 5

George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 pages
...for him; and longing dram-shops claim their customer.f Proceed, then, to his na" Shakes his imperial curls and gives the nod, The stamp of Fate and sanction of the God. High Heaven with awe the dreaded signal took, And all Olympus to its centre shook." * Se,...
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Translation of the Iliad of Homer

Homer - 1849 - 582 pages
...our head — The nod that ratifies the will divine, — 680 The faithful, fix'd, irrevocable sign; This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows." He...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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Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder, Volume 2

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 pages
...xairat eire^oxrapTo avcutros KpaTos air" aOavaroio' fj.eyav &e\e\il-eif O\vfj.Tfov." 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'u with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook." —...
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Grecian and Roman Mythology

Mary Ann Dwight - 1849 - 516 pages
...High Heaven the footstool of his feet he makes, And wide beneath him all Olympus shakes, He speaks, and awful bends his sable brows. Shakes his ambrosial...and gives the nod, The stamp of Fate and sanction of a god ; High Heaven, with trembling, the dread signal takes, And all Olympus to the centre shakes."...
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The Gospel Its Own Advocate

George Griffin - 1850 - 370 pages
...which he sought to embody the fabled god of gods. The memorable passage is thus translated by Pope: " 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." With...
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The Gospel Its Own Advocate

George Griffin - 1850 - 372 pages
...which he sought to embody the fabled god of gods. The memorable passage is thus translated by Pope : " 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." With...
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