 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
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb ; ers pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1889 - 670 pages
...silenced the devils who, in the disguiee of gode, had been uttering oracles:— The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. E. YAHDLEY. (7'b 8. vii. 229.) A flattering painter who, &c. (not " An advocate skilful"). Goldsmith's... | |
 | Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - Lincoln (England) - 1850 - 530 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...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." Millon'tJlymn on Christ's Nativity. No. 14. — An angel of a grave and priestly aspect — a figure... | |
 | 1850 - 538 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...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." Milton's Hymn on Christ't Nativity. No. 14.—An angel of a grave and priestly aspect—a figure of... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1850 - 396 pages
...execrations so sublime : — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch'd roof in words, deceiving Apollo from his shrine, Can...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand : The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1850 - 448 pages
...— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch'd roof in words, doceiving Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand : The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1851 - 316 pages
...origin of its multitudinous gods, look tame beside the mighty lines of Milton.!— The oracles are dumb No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand. The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Bible - 1851 - 348 pages
...origin of its multitudinous gods looks tame beside the mighty lines of Milton— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land, The dreadful Infant's hand. The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Bible - 1851 - 398 pages
...looks tame beside the mighty lines of Milton — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Ruus through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land, The dreadful Infant's hand. The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn.... | |
 | Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pages
...heavy weight When time swings wide his outward gate EXERCISE CV1. CHRISTMAS HYMN. The oracles are dumb, No voice, or hideous hum, Runs through the arched...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell : The lonely mountains o'er, and the resounding shore : A... | |
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