 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
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 pages
...Saviour: "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." In Cowper's poem of... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 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. Here the rhythm is... | |
 | John Barnard - 1987 - 192 pages
...written, 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. (lines 173-80) This... | |
 | Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle - 2023 - 240 pages
...Nativity": The Oracles are dum, No voice or hideous humm 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. 93 Petrarch was inclined... | |
 | Publius Papinius Statius - 1991 - 288 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'. See further HW Parke and DEW Wormell. The Delphic Oearle ;Oxford, 1956), i. 287 ff. 514 f. Juno's patronage... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...new prophet-poets, will draw their inspiration from Christian divinity, not from Apollo at Delphos: 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. (lines 176-80) It... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Nativity' The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. on 7542 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' So when the sun in bed. Curtained with cloudy red. Pillows... | |
 | Longxi Zhang - 1998 - 268 pages
...ode, 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." Here the advent of Christ manifests itself, among other things, as a transformation of language, for... | |
 | Carlos J. Alonso - 1998 - 282 pages
...striking: "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 leaving." 13. See, eg, Hopscotch, chapter 1 8. where Oliveira exclaims: "ieh Cartesius viejo jodido!" (eh Canesius,... | |
 | Carol K. Mack, Dinah Mack - 1998 - 328 pages
...XIX The Oracles are durnm, No voice or hideous humm 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 lonely mountains o 're, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament;... | |
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