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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... "
The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 405
by John Milton - 1857 - 570 pages
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 1

Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 400 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice...
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Walter Scott - 1836 - 356 pages
...pretended deiies on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum RUM through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...
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Lives of Scottish Worthies: James I [pt. 2]. Robert Henryson. William Dunbar ...

Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1840 - 360 pages
...constituted the system of heathen worship, at the birth of our Redeemer! — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From...
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Deliciae Literariae: A New Volume of Table-talk

Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 pages
...described by Milton in his magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice...
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Deliciae Literariae: A New Volume of Table-talk

Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 290 pages
...magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Euns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice...
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The chief of Glen-Orchay [a poem, by W. Bennet].

William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - 278 pages
...The Nativity," thus enlarges with inimitable beauty on the same subject:— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...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...
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1841 - 312 pages
...this as a fact, than that he believed all the incidents in. his Paradise Lost. "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From...
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Gems of sacred poetry [ed. by R. Cattermole?].

Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-«yed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice...
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