 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.  National Review - Page 2971860Full view - About this book
 | Encyclopaedia - 1851 - 568 pages
...temple prepared for its reception seems to have been not unworthy of the 1 He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives...The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Pope's Homer's Iliad,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...usurps the powers of all the the passive obedience and trembling homage of all the minor divinities: Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod: The stamp of fate : the sanction of a god ! McDuffie SBC. XCVII. WE SHOULD GLORY IN A CRUCIFIED REDEEMER. Jesus ! and... | |
 | Abel F. Fitch - 1851 - 874 pages
...be known to all courts and lawyers, every where and in all time to come! "He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stdmp of fate and sanction of the God; High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, •And all... | |
 | Samuel Chandler - 1853 - 618 pages
...terque quaterque Csesariem, cum qua terram, mare, si' dera movit. Met. I. i79. He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows; Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives...nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god: High heaven, with trembling, the dread signal took, And earth below from her deep centre shook. 7. D'in... | |
 | Homer - 1853 - 364 pages
...; This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows — " He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows,30 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.31 s0 He spoke, fyc.... | |
 | Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - 1854 - 266 pages
...fixed, irrevocable sign. This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy TOWS. He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives...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." This noble statue... | |
 | Seven wonders - 1854 - 384 pages
...long after so eulogized by the critical, but eloquent pen, of Longinus : " He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives...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 may justly compare... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...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 his ambrosial curls, and gives...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. Dixit, et avertens... | |
 | Redmond Barry (Sir) - 1854 - 214 pages
...Homer's description of the god in the Iliad, thus rendered by Mr. Pope— " He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls and gives...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." The excellence of... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...(tmierot, Kjiarii iat' i&cu>aTo<o' fiiyav 8' i\i\£*t "OAvjUToy. II. 1. T. 628. He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives...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. Dixit, et avertens... | |
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