“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)

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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

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