 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
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...Bending one way their precious influence ; * . * * , The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo,...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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Bible - 1851 - 396 pages
...Milton — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof, in worda deceiving. Apollo, from his shrine, Can no more divine,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah'a land, The dreadful Infant's band. The rays of Bethlehem blind his duaky eyn.... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1851 - 282 pages
...Of Marathon and Salamis ! of wisdom, eloquence, and song — all silenced now. The Oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum runs through the arched roof...divine, with hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. What fates were hers, since Japheth's son set foot upon her soil — Javan, to Otho ! l — Marathon,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...to embody forth in words the most lofty ideas. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Buns 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 larnant; From... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rnns B * pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | Horatio Balch Hackett - Bible - 1852 - 446 pages
...sailed of old." — Travels in Lycia by Spratt and Forbes, Vol. I. p. 31. cHAP. XXI. 1-3.] NOTES. 295 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." V. 2. The party take now another vessel. We are not informed of the reason for this measure. The vessel... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - Apologetics - 1852 - 692 pages
...Milton celebrate these desolations : — "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rons thro" the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd prieat from the prophetic cell Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered... | |
 | Horatio Balch Hackett - Bible - 1852 - 432 pages
...which St. Paul sailed of old." — Travels in Lycia by Spratt and Forbes, Vol. I. р. 31. Лpо11о from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." V. 2. The party take now another vessel. We are not informed of the reason for this measure. The vessel... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. 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 prophetick cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. 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 prophetick cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
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