...learning and felicity, makes use of this acknowledged fact in his Christmas hymn. The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos heaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priests from the prophetic cell....

...earth and their fabled tenants, at the rising of the Sun of .Righteousness — -- 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,...

...wroth to see his Kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX The Oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is...

...the departure of these pretended deities on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...trance or breathed spell ' Inspires the pale-eyed priests from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of...

...the heathen idols at the advent of the Saviour: "The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." In Cowper's poem of "Yardley Oak" there are some beautiful mythological allusions. The former of the...

...pagan 'gods' of earth, he uses effects of sound in a very different way. xix The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Here the rhythm is much less complex and hesitant: Milton doesn't have to make the distinction between...

...own purposes. Milton, in 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', had written, The oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. (lines 173-80) This is a plangent but strongly ironic account of Christ's birth displacing the superstitious...

...Apollo in his poem "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Oracles are dum, No voice or hideous humm 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. 93 Petrarch was inclined rather to the judgment of Lucan:...

...sortibus antra', etc., Milton. On the Moruing of Cheist's .\ativity, 173 ff. 'The oracles are dumb. , No voice or hideous hum / Runs through the arched...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving'. See further HW Parke and DEW Wormell. The Delphic Oearle ;Oxford, 1956), i. 287 ff. 514 f. Juno's patronage...

...these verses to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" is striking: "The oracles are dumh, / No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving." 13. See, eg, Hopscotch, chapter 1 8. where Oliveira exclaims: "ieh Cartesius viejo jodido!" (eh Canesius,...