 Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes ! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...  A new English grammar - Page 212by Brandon Turner - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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...; beat the drums ; Flush'd with a purple grace, He shows his honest face ; Now give the hautboys breath : he comes, he comes. Bacchus, ever fair and young.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician saufOf tate Here swallow'd up in endless misen-. But what...Of force believe almighjy, since no lese Than such Ho shows his honest face ; Now give tho hautboys breath : he comes, he conn-» Bacchus, ever fair and... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...ears' . . the monarch hears* ; Assumes the god* ; affects to nod' ; And seems to shake the spheres*. The praise of Bacchus*, then', the sweet musician...young*. The jolly god in triumph comes' ! Sound the trumpet* ; beat the drumsv; Flushed with a purple grace', He shows his honest face* ; Now give the... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Greek letter societies - 1909 - 650 pages
...promoter of civilization, a law giver and a lover of peace. Dryden gives us this conception in verse : "The praise of Bacchus, then the sweet musician sung,...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, he... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...as in the following verses by Dryden, the convivial qualities of the god overshadow all the rest : The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung,...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, he... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...ravithed ears. The monarch hears; Atsumes the god. Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. Ill The praise of Bacchus, then, the sweet musician sung;...triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums; Flushed with a purple grace0 He shows his honest face:c Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he... | |
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