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 405by John Milton - 1857 - 570 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Turnbull - 1854 - 546 pages
...of Christ, but in the entire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His... | |
| Robert Turnbull - 1854 - 560 pages
...of Christ, but in the entire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, • Hath left in shadows dread... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded taiL The oracles are dumb, 1 No voice or hideous hum TCTXRuns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard 2 and loud lament; 1 Alluding to the belief entertained by many of the Fathers, that tha oracles... | |
| Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...cry heard from the manger at Bethlehem throughout the spiritual universe : " 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 haunted... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 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... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...the heathen idols at the advent of the Savior. " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." In Cowper's poem of Yardley Oak there are some beautiful mythological allusions. The former of the... | |
| George Colfax Baldwin - 1855 - 348 pages
...thing is certain, as Milton has beautifully said in his Christmas Hymn — " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...leaving, No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-€yed priests from the prophetic cell." The heathen oracle is 110 more, the witchcraft of past... | |
| Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 pages
...Bethlehem throughout the spiritual universe : " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Buns 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 haunted... | |
| James Talboys Wheeler - 1855 - 402 pages
...mysterious inspiration. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, with words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." * Jugglery and priestcraft may have had full play in the cave of Trophonius, but not so in ancient... | |
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