 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
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges 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... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 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...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, 178... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. 252 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 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.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...them floating away into dissolution with their white bodies out of the woods. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum. Runs through the arched roof...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. The lonely mountains o'er. And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. Or these two stanzas :— The oracles are dumb ; No voice, or hideous hum, Runs through the arched...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping beard, and loud lament; From... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...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... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 400 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1836 - 356 pages
...pretended deiies on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum RUM 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... | |
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