 | Plutarch - Punishment - 1844 - 188 pages
...of the Saviour's advent, as follows : The oraclea are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through ihe arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo, from his shrine...Inspires the pale•eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 5. ei fi&tiov .... fiiov, though it may refer to moral conduct, can also be understood of worldly success... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...idea very nobly, in his hymn on the Nativity : "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched 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... | |
 | American literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...eloquence and song — " All silenced now ! — " The oracles are dumb : " No voice or hideous hum " Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : " Apollo..." With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. " What fates were hers, since Japheth's son set foot npon her soil — " Javan to Otho I " Marathon... | |
 | Leonhard Schmitz - Classical literature - 1844 - 458 pages
...poetical than exact. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof with words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more...divine With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. But the two cliffs of the overhanging steep, the clear stream which issues from the huge cleft that... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 : Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping3 heard and loud lament : From... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 356 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...surpassed by any thing even in his later works : "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs 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... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - American literature - 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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1845 - 484 pages
...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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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... 
