...ambitious preface, in which the translator appears not unwilling to usurp ill. honors of old Ossian — Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The courtesy of Miss Macpherson throw oj»-:; to us some new information relative to the (••.•!'•...

...most happily to the variety of the occasion. Those by which he has chosen to express majesty, (viz.) Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres, are chosen in the following ode, because the subject of it is great. For the more harmony likewise,...

...to write ; and as the future to his gaze appears not less brilliant than the past, wnat wonder he " assumes the god, affects to nod, and seems to shake the spheres !" Alexandre Dumas, having attained his literary majority, and through the one and twenty years of...

...to large masses — to a party, to classes, to a ale ; whereas his generosity is for manat large. He assumes the god. affects to nod, and seems to shake the spheres. But I have nothing to say against him. He has asked me hero to-night, and has talked to me most familiarly."...

...press'd ; And while he sought her snowy breast : Then round her slender waist he curled, And stamped an image of himself, a sovereign of the world. The listening...around: A present deity, the vaulted roofs rebound: With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects the nod, And seems to shake the spheres....

...recognising Jove as the father of his hero, hath used the most regular and perfect iambics : " The list'ning crowd admire the lofty sound, A present deity they...With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the g6d, Affects to nod, , • And seems to shake the spheres." But when he comes to sing the jovial god...

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

...present deity ! they shout around; A present deiiy! tlie vaulted roots rebound. With ravished ears, (he monarch hears; Assumes the god. affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of liacchiis, then, the sweet musician Ot'I/acchus, ever fair, and ever young. [sung, The jolly god in...

...Olympia pressed, [the world. And stamped an image of himself, a sovereign of The listening crowd—admire the lofty sound : A present deity! they shout around...; A present deity! the vaulted roofs rebound. With ravished ears, the monarch hears; And seems to sha Assumes the god, affects to nod, .hake the spheres....

...thither by despair and the enmity of his justly incensed subjects? Look at Alexander, " With ravished ears The monarch hears. Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. ***** With downcast looks, the joyless victor sate, Revolving in his altered soul The various turns...