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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 Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 5

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...t'7rtp^wfrarTo &VOETOI, Kparbs air* adaparoio' juc-ya*' 5' e'Ae'At^e*' "OA '.HT,n-. II. 1. v. 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. POPE....
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The Seven Wonders of the World: With Their Associations in Art & History

Seven wonders - 1854 - 384 pages
...Homer's sublime description, long after so eulogized by the critical, but eloquent pen, of Longinus : " 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." We...
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The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory ...

1854 - 474 pages
...xairat eirfp'ptaffavTO avaxros Kpurus air' aBaiiaroio juryw 8' tAeAi£ef O\upmiv. 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." POPE....
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The Greek Anthology

Lord Neaves - 1874 - 236 pages
...the approving nod of the divinity, thus imposingly but not very accurately translated by Pope : — " He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows : Shakes...gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god." The work appears to have occupied Phidias, who was a slow and elaborate worker, for a period...
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The Iliad, tr. by A. Pope, with notes by T.A. Buckley

Homerus - 1874 - 494 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—" He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows,11 Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate and sanction of the god :...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...heavenly goddess, sing ! i Booh i. Line I. The distant Trojans never injured me. Booh i. Line 200. Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod ; The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. Booh i. Line 684. She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. Booh iii. Line 208. Not two...
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The Greek Anthology

Lord Neaves - 1874 - 234 pages
...imposingly but not very accurately translated by Pope :— " He spoke, and awful bends his sable bro^vs : Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god." The work appears to have occupied Phidias, who was a slow and elaborate worker, for a period...
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Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practial Lessons on ...

George Payn Quackenbos - 1874 - 468 pages
...furnish a rhyme for the preceding one : — " He spoke: and awful bends hla sable brows, Shakes bis 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." § 283....
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The Greek Anthology

Lord Neaves - 1875 - 232 pages
...the approving nod of the divinity, thus imposingly but not very accurately translated by Pope : — " He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows : Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, Thu stamp of fate, and sanction of the god." The work appears to have occupied Phidias, who was a slow...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...heavenly goddess, sing ! Book i. Line I. The distant Trojans never injured me. . Book i. Line 200. Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod ; The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. Book \. Lint 684. She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. Book iii. Line 208. The day...
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