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...fair Olympia pressed, And stamped an image of himself, a sovereign of the world! The listening crowd admire the lofty sound : " A present deity !" they...present deity !" the vaulted roofs rebound. — With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres !...

...loyalty's quick. pants in its monarch's arms — all eve' drink up the sight, all tongues reverberate the sound — " A present deity they shout around, A present deity the vaulted roofs rebound !" What does it all amount to1 A show — a theatrical spectacle ! What does it prove 1 That a king...

...loyalty's quick pants in its monarch's arms — all eyes drink up the sight, all tongues reverberate the sound — "A present deity they shout around, A present deity the vaulted roofs rebound ! " What does it all amount to ? A show — a theatrical spectacle ! What does it prove ? That a king...

...loyalty's quick pants in its monarch's arms — all eyes drink up the sight, all tongues reverberate the sound — • "A present deity they shout around, A present deity the vaulted roofs rebound ! " What does it all amount to ? A show — a theatrical spectacle ! What does it prove ? That a king...

...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 to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young ; [sung The jolly...

...slender waist he curl'd, And stamp'd an image of himself, a sovereign of the world. The listening crowd admire the lofty sound, A present deity, they shout around : A present deity, the vaulted roofs rehound : With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake...

...parting. The Iambic Monometer Acatalectic consists of one Iambic metre, or of two Iambic feet ; as, " With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod." The Iambic Monometer Hypercatalectic consists of an Iambic metre with an additional syllable ; as,...

...and many eastern sovereigns (Curt. viii. 5.), Alexander of Macedon (Just. xi. xii. " With ravished ears The monarch hears; Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres;" D. Alex. Feast M.). Domitian styled himself D ami nut tt Dtut; Suet. 13. Mart. V. viii. 1. cf. Kutr....

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