And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,
Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.


Annus Mirabilis, Stanza 39. - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

John Dryden Quotes

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.