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" The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair, and ever young. The jolly god in triumph comes ; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums ; Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath ; he comes,... "
The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register - Page 102
1816
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 41-42

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'...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2

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...
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The Port Folio, Volume 3

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...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

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...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

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...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

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...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 21

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...
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A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With ..., Volume 1

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...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1

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...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

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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