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
| Eliza Robbins - 1841 - 390 pages
...delusion. " 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 mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Hymn on the... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 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... | |
| George Oliver - 1843 - 396 pages
...— The oracles are dumb ; No Toice 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 Temple of Jerusalem.... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 206 pages
...itself. 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. In consecrated earth,... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 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... | |
| Plutarch - 1844 - 188 pages
...follows : The oraclea are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through ihe 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. 5. ei fi&tiov ....... | |
| Leonhard Schmitz - 1844 - 458 pages
...exact. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof with words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. But the two cliffs of the overhanging steep, the clear stream which issues from the huge cleft that... | |
| 1856 - 606 pages
...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. " What fates were hers, since Japheth's son set foot npon her soil — " Javan to Otho I " Marathon... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...: "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." The genius of the Christian faith had as effectually cowed that of the Aztec religion, as that of Cortes... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...keep. The oracles2 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... | |
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