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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 Churchman's companion - Page 281
1852
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep. The oracles2 are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving :...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...
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The Family Library (Harper)., Volume 11

1845 - 356 pages
...pretended deiies on the eve of the blessed Nativity. •, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving, Apollo...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...
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Views and Reviews in American Literature: History and Fiction

William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 pages
...idea very nobly, in his hymn on the Nativity : " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Rune through the arche'd roof in words deceiving, Apollo...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving." The genius of the Christian faith had as effectually cowed that of the Aztec religion, as that of Cortes...
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A Gallery of Literary Portraits

George Gilfillan - 1845 - 484 pages
...gods look tame beside the mighty lines of Milton :— " The oracles are dumb No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the...
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A Gallery of Literary Portraits

George Gilfillan - 1845 - 500 pages
...gods look tame beside the mighty lines of Milton :— " The oracles are dumb No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine, Can uo more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell...
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Sketches of Modern Literature, and Eminent Literary Men ...

George Gilfillan - 1846 - 508 pages
...gods look tame beside the mighty lines of Milton : " The oracles are dumb : No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine, Volume 2

1846 - 586 pages
...looks tame beside the mighty lines of Milton : — * The, oracles are dumb No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightiy trance or breathed spelt Inspire» the pale-eyed priest from the...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine..., Volume 2

1846 - 436 pages
...lines of Milton : — * The oracles are dumb No voice or hideous bum Buna through the arched roof iu words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 79

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 578 pages
...remind the reader of a later and loftier strain : — ' The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving :...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.' 182 Bishop...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 50

1847 - 488 pages
...shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...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...
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