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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. "
The new Pantheon, or, An introduction to the mythology of the ancients - Page 18
by William Jillard Hort - 1827
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A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of ...

Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 pages
...celestial locks of his immortal head, all Olympus was shaken." Pope translates it thus : He spoke ; and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial...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. Analysis....
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Religious Ceremonies and Customs; or, the Forms of worship practised by the ...

William Burder - 1841 - 624 pages
...High heaven 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...The stamp of Fate, and sanction of the god : High heaven with, trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. TEMPLES. Temples...
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Religious Ceremonies and Customs: Or, The Forms of Worship Practised by the ...

William Burder - Religions - 1841 - 638 pages
...footstool for his feet he makes, And wide heneath him all Olympus shakes. He spake, and awful bonds 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. The deities above...
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Walks Through the Studii of the Sculptors at Rome, Volumes 1-2

Hawks Le Grice - Sculptors - 1841 - 462 pages
...penetrate beyond the boundless regions of creation bespeak the great Jove, heaven's mighty king ! " He shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod; The stamp of fate , and sanction of the god ". This cameo is of oriental agate, and is sculptured in very high relief. It must have presented great...
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Salopia, The News-room, and Other Poems

John William Bythell - 1841 - 298 pages
...Strangers invading, from Faction's wild foam, The Land of our Fathers, our Birth-place, our Home ! (10) " gives the nod ; The stamp of fate, and sanction of the God." I'nrl.'s HOHEB. THE ENGLISH 'SQUIRE. A SKETCH. PROUD among Neighbours Justice to dispense. At County...
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Prose e poesie, edite ed inedite

Ugo Foscolo - 1842 - 502 pages
...iaiilaliwdeiroriginale. ' POPÉ. He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows SJmkes his ambrosial curls, and gives Ute (nod; The stamp of fate, and sanction of the God: High Heav'n with trembling the dread si(gnal toot, And all Olympus to the centre sltook (i). » In quesli versi non si senté lo squassamenlo délia...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...what none dare refuse, — 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 !" State affairs have for several years monopolized the attention pf Mr. M'Duffie....
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Elements of Mythology: Or, Classical Fables of the Greeks and Romans

Eliza Robbins - Mythology - 1851 - 318 pages
...The faithful, fixed, irrevocable, sign ,This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows. — He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial...The stamp of fate, and sanction of the God : High heaven, with trembling, the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook. Iliad, Book 1 Virgil,...
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Racine and the French classical drama

Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.) - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 - 846 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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