The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest... Paradise Lost - Page xviby John Milton - 1851 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
| Walter Scott - 1830 - 372 pages
...Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving; No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...little more than things to come. Some have been of my Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nighly trance or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed Priest from the prophetic cell. Hymn on the... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale.eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 pages
...The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. 252 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 pages
...Lost. "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...tail. The oracles are dumh, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavirg. "No nightly trance or hreathed spell Inspires the pale eyed priest from the prophetic cell.... | |
| James Boaden - 1833 - 400 pages
...the blaze with the departing eVil spirits, of whom play-houses are the proverbial habitations : — " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving ; A voice of weeping heard and loud lament, The parting Genius is with sighing sent." At this time,... | |
| James Boaden - 1833 - 402 pages
...the blaze with the departing evil spirits, of whom play-houses are the proverbial habitations : — " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving ; A voice of weeping heard and loud lament, The parting Genius is with sighing sent." At this time,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pages
...woods. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum. Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. The lonely mountains... | |
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