| John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...they shout around : A present Deity, the vaulted roofs rebound, With ravish'd ears The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. CHORUS. " With ravish'd ears " The monarch hears; " Assumes the god, to nod, I to shake 1 Bacchus th'... | |
| George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...they shout around, A present deity' the vaulted roofs rebound. With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god. Affects to nod. And seems to shake the spheres. But when he comes to sing the jovial god of wine, he very judiciously changes the measure into the... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 566 pages
...they shout around ; A present deity ! the vaulted roofs rebound. With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres." The magnificence of this scene is contrasted with the revelry of the joys of Bacchus. The measure also... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...they shout around : A present deity, the vaulted roofs rehound t With ravish'U ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician suug , Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young : The jolly... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...they shout around: A present deity, the vaulted roofs rebound : With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician sung ; Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young : The jolly... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...they shout around : A present deity, the vaulted roofs rebound: With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician sung; Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young: The jolly... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...they shout around : A present Deity, the vaulted roofs rebound.With ravish'd ears The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres, CHORUS, " With ravish'd ears " The monarch hears; " Assumes the god, " Affects to nod, " And seems... | |
| Juvenal - 1807 - 390 pages
...hearing himself celebrated as the son of Jupiter by Olympia. > With ravish'd ears The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. 72. But—a size, Sfc.] They had no pot capacious enough, in its dimensions, to contain this large... | |
| George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...good deal of what Mr. Pope called namby-pamby in both—' " With ravish'd ears " The monarch hears, " Assumes the god, " Affects to nod, " And seems to shake the spheres." " Bich the treasure, " Sweet the pleasure, " Sweet is pleasure after pain," &c. — DRYDEğ. '/ " Dreadful... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. CHORUS. With ravished ears, The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician sung ; Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young. The jolly... | |
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