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
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 576 pages
...departed. " The oracles arc dumb, No voice or hideons 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." This, so far as... | |
| Robert Turnbull - 1854 - 560 pages
..." The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns 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. Peor and Baalim Forsake... | |
| Robert Turnbull - 1854 - 546 pages
..." The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns 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. Peor and Baalim Forsake... | |
| James Pillans - 1854 - 292 pages
...of Greece, we return Eastward to the Aegean shore, Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.— MILTON, ODE ON THE NATIVITY. 27 Hence perhaps the propriety of the epithet Acheloia in the opening... | |
| Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pages
...: " The oracles are dumb j 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 - 1855 - 644 pages
...The oracles are dumb, 1 No voice or hideous hum TCTXRuns 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. xx. The lonely mountains... | |
| George Colfax Baldwin - 1855 - 348 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, No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-€yed priests from the prophetic cell." The heathen oracle... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 564 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... | |
| Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 pages
...: " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Buns 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... | |
| 1909 - 500 pages
...XIX 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. XX The lonely mountains... | |
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