 | Enrico Fubini - 1994 - 436 頁
...this Talent more universally, and because these Instances must also be most universally understood. 9. With ravish'd Ears, The Monarch hears, Assumes the...God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the Spheres. In which Air I am sorry to observe, that the Affectation of imitating this Nod, has reduced the Music... | |
 | Andreas Fischer - 1994 - 276 頁
...line as in the already quoted example from Dryden's Alexander's Feast (34-36): The list'ning crowd admire the lofty sound; "A present deity," they shout...around; "A present deity." the vaulted roofs rebound. In the poetry of Pope we also find examples for this, as in his Pastorals ("Autumn" 49-50; Pope's italics),... | |
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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... 
