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" 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 xvi
by John Milton - 1851 - 415 pages
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 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 mighty trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains...
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The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 32

1840 - 652 pages
...ceased to prescribe — No voice, nor hideous hum Sounds thro' the arched roof, with strains deceiving ; Apollo, from his shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow shriek, the steep of Delphos leaving. Bacon was anticipated, for induction was applied to physic — and the genius of Hippocrates stamped...
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Outlines of geography, principally ancient [by J. Pillans].

James Pillans - 1847 - 300 pages
...555. 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. — MILT. ODE ON THE NATIVITY. 38 Meleagream maculatus sanguine Nesei Evenog Calydona secat. — LUC....
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The Churchman's companion, Volume 11

1852 - 788 pages
..." The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hnm Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. " Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered god of Palestine ; And mooned...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...tail* The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Uuns through the arched roof in words de№¡nn£ gire them all the lie. Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell love it is but lust, Tell learutf. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell....
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Peter Jones, an autobiography. Stage 1

Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
..." The oracles are dumb ! No voice or hideous hum Rings 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." MILTON — Hymn of...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 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-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains...
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The Sacred Poets of England and America: For Three Centuries

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 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...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 79

1889 - 670 pages
...oracles:— 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. E. YAHDLEY. (7'b 8. vii. 229.) A flattering painter who, &c. (not " An advocate skilful"). Goldsmith's...
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The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with ...

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...tail. The oraeles are dnmb,' No voiee or hideons hnm Rnns throngh the arehed roof in words deeeiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...No nightly tranee, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetie eell. The lonely monntains o'er, And the resonnding shore, ' Psalm...
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