 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo,...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-cy'd priest from the prophetic cclL The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | 1852 - 788 pages
...coming, and their idols were marred and mutilated. " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hnm Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. " Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered god of Palestine ; And mooned... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...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 mountains... | |
 | James Pillans - 1847 - 300 pages
...Delphis oracula cessant — Jüv. vi. 555. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. — MILT. ODE ON THE NATIVITY. 38 Meleagream maculatus sanguine Nesei Evenog Calydona secat. — LUC.... | |
 | Medicine - 1840 - 652 pages
...oracles ceased to prescribe — No voice, nor hideous hum Sounds thro' the arched roof, with strains deceiving ; Apollo, from his shrine, Can no more divine,...With hollow shriek, the steep of Delphos leaving. Bacon was anticipated, for induction was applied to physic — and the genius of Hippocrates stamped... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 344 pages
...Compare, particularly, the following stanza: — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, written in the youth of his intellect, could scarcely have been unknown to Taylor. From this chapter,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...tail* The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Uuns through the arched roof in words de№¡nn£ gire them all the lie. Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell love it is but lust, Tell learutf. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell.... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 348 pages
...particularly, the following stanza: — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the archdd roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, written in the youth of his intellect, could scarcely have been unknown to Taylor. From this chapter,... | |
 | Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
...earth — memorials of ancient Time, of a world that has passed away. CHAP XIII. THE WITCH OF ENDOR. " The oracles are dumb ! No voice or hideous hum Rings...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." MILTON — Hymn of the Nativity. " There are numbers of the like kind, especially if you include dreams... | |
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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... 
