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... Complete Poetical Works - Page 166by John Milton - 1862Full view - About this book
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...represent on the stage things past; I do believe them little more than things to come. Some have been of my Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving Apollo...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nighly trance or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed Priest from the prophetic cell. Hymn on the... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 pages
...that he was convinced of 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...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...his usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale.eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 858 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Ssrindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumh, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavirg. "No nightly trance or hreathed spell Inspires the pale eyed priest from the prophetic cell.... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1833 - 378 pages
...and unholy mysteries which constituted the system of heathen worship, at the birth of our Redeemer : The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pages
...winged beauties, and sends them floating away into dissolution with their white bodies out of the woods. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum. Runs...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. The lonely mountains o'er. And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 364 pages
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| Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1840 - 360 pages
...unholy mysteries which constituted the system of heathen worship, at the birth of our Redeemer! — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A... | |
| William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - 278 pages
...Milton, in his Hymn on " The Nativity," thus enlarges with inimitable beauty on the same subject:— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...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... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1841 - 312 pages
...he was convinced of 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...No nightly trance, or breathed spell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
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